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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2021-04-29 21:18:01 +0300 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2021-05-13 19:13:23 +0300 |
commit | 1893afd63409111c6edcee9d6e1196fc06cf4fd7 (patch) | |
tree | 7e69c09686f67289eacdabcd4f25e8471230c93e /security | |
parent | 76c8eaafe4f061f3790112842a2fbb297e4bea88 (diff) | |
download | linux-1893afd63409111c6edcee9d6e1196fc06cf4fd7.tar.xz |
rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections
There are a number of places that call out the fact that preempt-disable
regions of code now act as RCU read-side critical sections, where
preempt-disable regions of code include irq-disable regions of code,
bh-disable regions of code, hardirq handlers, and NMI handlers. However,
someone relying solely on (for example) the call_rcu() header comment
might well have no idea that preempt-disable regions of code have RCU
semantics.
This commit therefore updates the header comments for
call_rcu(), synchronize_rcu(), rcu_dereference_bh_check(), and
rcu_dereference_sched_check() to call out these new(ish) forms of RCU
readers.
Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>
[ paulmck: Apply Matthew Wilcox and Michel Lespinasse feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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