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| author | Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> | 2010-04-30 13:37:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> | 2010-04-30 13:37:29 -0700 |
| commit | f9221fd80343285514568da6c5dbda0f87109de8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a2f0077ebea9d094bdeedb319c97cb591d51c51 /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
| parent | a36d515c7a2dfacebcf41729f6812dbc424ebcf0 (diff) | |
| parent | a9743fcdc0eb43d028b71267438076e1b0112ba0 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'skip_delete_inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2-mark into ocfs2-fixes
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index cbc180f9019..790d1a81237 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -260,7 +260,8 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! The reason that it is permissible to use RCU list-traversal primitives when the update-side lock is held is that doing so can be quite helpful in reducing code bloat when common code is - shared between readers and updaters. + shared between readers and updaters. Additional primitives + are provided for this case, as discussed in lockdep.txt. 10. Conversely, if you are in an RCU read-side critical section, and you don't hold the appropriate update-side lock, you -must- @@ -344,8 +345,8 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! requiring SRCU's read-side deadlock immunity or low read-side realtime latency. - Note that, rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() relate to - SRCU just as they do to other forms of RCU. + Note that, rcu_assign_pointer() relates to SRCU just as they do + to other forms of RCU. 15. The whole point of call_rcu(), synchronize_rcu(), and friends is to wait until all pre-existing readers have finished before |