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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-11-27 09:20:40 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-12-05 11:57:53 -0800 |
| commit | 9ad3c143d7d6942c66f27bc6c18f5df638f70aff (patch) | |
| tree | b0b52f72cd5d03677b2d643feaaa7220aa109f29 /Documentation/RCU | |
| parent | 98c1ec7cefaadbf65680d116c3d8612b93a841a0 (diff) | |
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doc: De-emphasize smp_read_barrier_depends
This commit keeps only the historical and low-level discussion of
smp_read_barrier_depends().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Adjusted to allow for David Howells feedback on prior commit. ]
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 3 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html index 62e847bcdcdd..571c3d75510f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html @@ -581,7 +581,8 @@ This guarantee was only partially premeditated. DYNIX/ptx used an explicit memory barrier for publication, but had nothing resembling <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt> for subscription, nor did it have anything resembling the <tt>smp_read_barrier_depends()</tt> -that was later subsumed into <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt>. +that was later subsumed into <tt>rcu_dereference()</tt> and later +still into <tt>READ_ONCE()</tt>. The need for these operations made itself known quite suddenly at a late-1990s meeting with the DEC Alpha architects, back in the days when DEC was still a free-standing company. diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt index 1acb26b09b48..ab96227bad42 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt @@ -122,11 +122,7 @@ o Be very careful about comparing pointers obtained from Note that if checks for being within an RCU read-side critical section are not required and the pointer is never dereferenced, rcu_access_pointer() should be used in place - of rcu_dereference(). The rcu_access_pointer() primitive - does not require an enclosing read-side critical section, - and also omits the smp_read_barrier_depends() included in - rcu_dereference(), which in turn should provide a small - performance gain in some CPUs (e.g., the DEC Alpha). + of rcu_dereference(). o The comparison is against a pointer that references memory that was initialized "a long time ago." The reason diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index df62466da4e0..a27fbfb0efb8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -600,8 +600,7 @@ don't forget about them when submitting patches making use of RCU!] #define rcu_dereference(p) \ ({ \ - typeof(p) _________p1 = p; \ - smp_read_barrier_depends(); \ + typeof(p) _________p1 = READ_ONCE(p); \ (_________p1); \ }) |