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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-07-08 17:38:59 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-08-19 17:18:02 -0700
commit77d8485a8b5416c615b6acd95f01bfcacd7d81ff (patch)
tree725742c078b9712d875e9c633d249b6da14e5f00 /kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
parent742734eea0cf5314cde5945963ed964be167bd84 (diff)
rcu: improve kerneldoc for rcu_read_lock(), call_rcu(), and synchronize_rcu()
Make it explicit that new RCU read-side critical sections that start after call_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() start might still be running after the end of the relevant grace period. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_plugin.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree_plugin.h8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index 9906f85c778..63bb7714fde 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -546,9 +546,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu);
*
* Control will return to the caller some time after a full grace
* period has elapsed, in other words after all currently executing RCU
- * read-side critical sections have completed. RCU read-side critical
- * sections are delimited by rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(),
- * and may be nested.
+ * read-side critical sections have completed. Note, however, that
+ * upon return from synchronize_rcu(), the caller might well be executing
+ * concurrently with new RCU read-side critical sections that began while
+ * synchronize_rcu() was waiting. RCU read-side critical sections are
+ * delimited by rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(), and may be nested.
*/
void synchronize_rcu(void)
{