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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>2018-11-21 11:35:03 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>2019-01-25 15:35:21 -0800
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rcu: Rename rcu_check_callbacks() to rcu_sched_clock_irq()
The name rcu_check_callbacks() arguably made sense back in the early 2000s when RCU was quite a bit simpler than it is today, but it has become quite misleading, especially with the advent of dyntick-idle and NO_HZ_FULL. The rcu_check_callbacks() function is RCU's hook into the scheduling-clock interrupt, and is now but one of many ways that callbacks get promoted to invocable state. This commit therefore changes the name to rcu_sched_clock_irq(), which is the same number of characters and clearly indicates this function's relation to the rest of the Linux kernel. In addition, for the sake of consistency, rcu_flavor_check_callbacks() is also renamed to rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq(). While in the area, the header comments for both functions are reworked. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-callback-invocation.svg2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-gp.svg4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-qs.svg2
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html
index e4d94fba6c89..a3acfd49255f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ section that the grace period must wait on.
noted by <tt>rcu_node_context_switch()</tt> on the left.
On the other hand, if the CPU takes a scheduler-clock interrupt
while executing in usermode, a quiescent state will be noted by
-<tt>rcu_check_callbacks()</tt> on the right.
+<tt>rcu_sched_clock_irq()</tt> on the right.
Either way, the passage through a quiescent state will be noted
in a per-CPU variable.
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ to end.
These callbacks are identified by <tt>rcu_advance_cbs()</tt>,
which is usually invoked by <tt>__note_gp_changes()</tt>.
As shown in the diagram below, this invocation can be triggered by
-the scheduling-clock interrupt (<tt>rcu_check_callbacks()</tt> on
+the scheduling-clock interrupt (<tt>rcu_sched_clock_irq()</tt> on
the left) or by idle entry (<tt>rcu_cleanup_after_idle()</tt> on
the right, but only for kernels build with
<tt>CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y</tt>).
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-callback-invocation.svg b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-callback-invocation.svg
index 832408313d93..3fcf0c17cef2 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-callback-invocation.svg
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-callback-invocation.svg
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@
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- style="font-size:192px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;text-anchor:start;fill:#000000;stroke-width:0.025in;font-family:Courier">rcu_check_callbacks()</text>
+ style="font-size:192px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;text-anchor:start;fill:#000000;stroke-width:0.025in;font-family:Courier">rcu_sched_clock_irq()</text>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-gp.svg b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-gp.svg
index acd73c7ad0f4..f0bbe6f8d729 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-gp.svg
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-gp.svg
@@ -3902,7 +3902,7 @@
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y="-4418.6582"
x="3745.7725"
- xml:space="preserve">rcu_check_callbacks()</text>
+ xml:space="preserve">rcu_sched_clock_irq()</text>
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@@ -4968,7 +4968,7 @@
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font-size="192"
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- style="font-size:192px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;text-anchor:start;fill:#000000;stroke-width:0.025in;font-family:Courier">rcu_check_callbacks()</text>
+ style="font-size:192px;font-style:normal;font-weight:bold;text-anchor:start;fill:#000000;stroke-width:0.025in;font-family:Courier">rcu_sched_clock_irq()</text>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-qs.svg b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-qs.svg
index 149bec2a4493..3596ffdd4685 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-qs.svg
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/TreeRCU-qs.svg
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@
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y="-4418.6582"
x="3745.7725"
- xml:space="preserve">rcu_check_callbacks()</text>
+ xml:space="preserve">rcu_sched_clock_irq()</text>
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