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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-11-03 13:43:24 -0700 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-12-11 10:31:41 -0800 |
commit | 9ceae0e248fb553c702d51d5275167d462f4efd2 (patch) | |
tree | f7ac3ac7d70cea2bf1db11b4065a357d9dca9d30 /Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt | |
parent | 0c53dd8b31404c1d7fd15be8f065ebaec615a562 (diff) | |
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rcu: Add documentation for raw SRCU read-side primitives
Update various files in Documentation/RCU to reflect srcu_read_lock_raw()
and srcu_read_unlock_raw(). Credit to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting
use of the existing _raw suffix instead of the earlier bulkref names.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt index 31852705b586..bf778332a28f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt @@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ o How can the updater tell when a grace period has completed Preemptible variants of RCU (CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) get the same effect, but require that the readers manipulate CPU-local - counters. These counters allow limited types of blocking - within RCU read-side critical sections. SRCU also uses - CPU-local counters, and permits general blocking within - RCU read-side critical sections. These two variants of - RCU detect grace periods by sampling these counters. + counters. These counters allow limited types of blocking within + RCU read-side critical sections. SRCU also uses CPU-local + counters, and permits general blocking within RCU read-side + critical sections. These variants of RCU detect grace periods + by sampling these counters. o If I am running on a uniprocessor kernel, which can only do one thing at a time, why should I wait for a grace period? |