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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index 79e789b8b8e..7703ec73a9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -354,12 +354,6 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! using RCU rather than SRCU, because RCU is almost always faster and easier to use than is SRCU. - If you need to enter your read-side critical section in a - hardirq or exception handler, and then exit that same read-side - critical section in the task that was interrupted, then you need - to srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(), which avoid - the lockdep checking that would otherwise this practice illegal. - Also unlike other forms of RCU, explicit initialization and cleanup is required via init_srcu_struct() and cleanup_srcu_struct(). These are passed a "struct srcu_struct" |