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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2012-10-09 18:03:21 +0400
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2012-10-09 18:04:25 +0400
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Merge tag 'disintegrate-mtd-20121009' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dhowells/linux-headers
UAPI Disintegration 2012-10-09 Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/arm/configs/bcmring_defconfig arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx51-imx53.c drivers/mtd/nand/Kconfig drivers/mtd/nand/bcm_umi_nand.c drivers/mtd/nand/nand_bcm_umi.h drivers/mtd/nand/orion_nand.c
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@@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
code under the influence of preempt_disable(), you instead
need to use synchronize_irq() or synchronize_sched().
+ This same limitation also applies to synchronize_rcu_bh()
+ and synchronize_srcu(), as well as to the asynchronous and
+ expedited forms of the three primitives, namely call_rcu(),
+ call_rcu_bh(), call_srcu(), synchronize_rcu_expedited(),
+ synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited(), and synchronize_srcu_expedited().
+
12. Any lock acquired by an RCU callback must be acquired elsewhere
with softirq disabled, e.g., via spin_lock_irqsave(),
spin_lock_bh(), etc. Failing to disable irq on a given