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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 21/30] Update call_rcu() usage, add synchronize_rcu()
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:09:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279138204-12849-21-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100714200945.GA10535@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reported-by: Kyle Hubert <khubert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
index e6cc574..ed64d22 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -1645,7 +1645,9 @@ the amount of locking which needs to be done.
       all the readers who were traversing the list when we deleted the
       element are finished.  We use <function>call_rcu()</function> to
       register a callback which will actually destroy the object once
-      the readers are finished.
+      all pre-existing readers are finished.  Alternatively,
+      <function>synchronize_rcu()</function> may be used to block until
+      all pre-existing are finished.
     </para>
     <para>
       But how does Read Copy Update know when the readers are
@@ -1714,7 +1716,7 @@ the amount of locking which needs to be done.
 -        object_put(obj);
 +        list_del_rcu(&amp;obj-&gt;list);
          cache_num--;
-+        call_rcu(&amp;obj-&gt;rcu, cache_delete_rcu, obj);
++        call_rcu(&amp;obj-&gt;rcu, cache_delete_rcu);
  }
 
  /* Must be holding cache_lock */
-- 
1.7.0.6


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-14 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-14 20:09 [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 0/30] RCU commits queued for 2.6.36/7 Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 01/30] net: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check() Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 02/30] rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 03/30] rculist: avoid __rcu annotations Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 04/30] cgroups: " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 05/30] credentials: rcu annotation Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 06/30] keys: __rcu annotations Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 07/30] nfs: " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 22:07   ` Trond Myklebust
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 08/30] net: __rcu annotations for drivers Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 09/30] perf_event: __rcu annotations Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 10/30] notifiers: " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 11/30] radix-tree: " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 12/30] idr: " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 13/30] input: " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 14/30] net/netfilter: " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 15/30] kvm: add " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 16/30] kernel: " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 17/30] net: " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 18/30] kvm: more " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 19/30] vhost: add " Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 20/30] Update documentation to note the passage of INIT_RCU_HEAD() Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 22/30] rcu: make CPU stall warning timeout configurable Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 23/30] rcu head remove init Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 24/30] rcu: add shiny new debug assists to Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:09 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 25/30] rcutorture: add random preemption Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:10 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 26/30] rcu: simplify the usage of percpu data Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:10 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 27/30] rcu: apply ->rda changes to rcutree_trace.c Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 21:12   ` Josh Triplett
2010-07-14 21:16     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:10 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 28/30] rcu: rename __do_rcu_dereference_check() to rcu_lockdep_assert() Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:10 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 29/30] rcu: add boot parameter to suppress RCU CPU stall warning messages Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 21:16   ` Josh Triplett
2010-07-14 23:30     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 20:10 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 30/30] rcu: improve kerneldoc for rcu_read_lock(), call_rcu(), and synchronize_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
2010-07-14 21:19 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 0/30] RCU commits queued for 2.6.36/7 Josh Triplett
2010-07-14 23:27   ` Paul E. McKenney

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