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authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2010-05-17 17:24:04 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2010-05-17 17:24:04 +0100
commitac1d426e825ab5778995f2f6f053ca2e6b45c622 (patch)
tree75b91356ca39463e0112931aa6790802fb1e07a2 /include/linux/radix-tree.h
parentfda0e18c8a7a3e02747c2b045b4fcd2c920410b9 (diff)
parenta3685f00652af83f12b63e3b4ef48f29581ba48b (diff)
Merge branch 'devel-stable' into devel
Conflicts: arch/arm/Kconfig arch/arm/include/asm/system.h arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
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diff --git a/include/linux/radix-tree.h b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
index c5da7491809..55ca73cf25e 100644
--- a/include/linux/radix-tree.h
+++ b/include/linux/radix-tree.h
@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ do { \
* (Note, rcu_assign_pointer and rcu_dereference are not needed to control
* access to data items when inserting into or looking up from the radix tree)
*
+ * Note that the value returned by radix_tree_tag_get() may not be relied upon
+ * if only the RCU read lock is held. Functions to set/clear tags and to
+ * delete nodes running concurrently with it may affect its result such that
+ * two consecutive reads in the same locked section may return different
+ * values. If reliability is required, modification functions must also be
+ * excluded from concurrency.
+ *
* radix_tree_tagged is able to be called without locking or RCU.
*/