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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/srcu.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/srcu.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h index 1eb520cd1680..e1b005918bbb 100644 --- a/include/linux/srcu.h +++ b/include/linux/srcu.h @@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ static inline int srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp) * one way to indirectly wait on an SRCU grace period is to acquire * a mutex that is held elsewhere while calling synchronize_srcu() or * synchronize_srcu_expedited(). + * + * Note that srcu_read_lock() and the matching srcu_read_unlock() must + * occur in the same context, for example, it is illegal to invoke + * srcu_read_unlock() in an irq handler if the matching srcu_read_lock() + * was invoked in process context. */ static inline int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp) { |