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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt index 31852705b58..bf778332a28 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt @@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ o How can the updater tell when a grace period has completed Preemptible variants of RCU (CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) get the same effect, but require that the readers manipulate CPU-local - counters. These counters allow limited types of blocking - within RCU read-side critical sections. SRCU also uses - CPU-local counters, and permits general blocking within - RCU read-side critical sections. These two variants of - RCU detect grace periods by sampling these counters. + counters. These counters allow limited types of blocking within + RCU read-side critical sections. SRCU also uses CPU-local + counters, and permits general blocking within RCU read-side + critical sections. These variants of RCU detect grace periods + by sampling these counters. o If I am running on a uniprocessor kernel, which can only do one thing at a time, why should I wait for a grace period? |