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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-03-13 03:54:14 +0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-06-11 00:45:25 +0400
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rcu: Remove srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw().
These interfaces never did get used, so this commit removes them, their rcutorture tests, and documentation referencing them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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@@ -354,12 +354,6 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
using RCU rather than SRCU, because RCU is almost always faster
and easier to use than is SRCU.
- If you need to enter your read-side critical section in a
- hardirq or exception handler, and then exit that same read-side
- critical section in the task that was interrupted, then you need
- to srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(), which avoid
- the lockdep checking that would otherwise this practice illegal.
-
Also unlike other forms of RCU, explicit initialization
and cleanup is required via init_srcu_struct() and
cleanup_srcu_struct(). These are passed a "struct srcu_struct"