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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 tip/core/rcu 4/7] rcu: Upgrade srcu_read_lock() docbook about SRCU grace periods
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:45:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282329945-26043-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100820184521.GA24715@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

It is illegal to wait for an SRCU grace period while within the
corresponding flavor of SRCU read-side critical section.  Therefore,
this commit updates the srcu_read_lock() docbook accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/srcu.h |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h
index 6f456a7..58971e8 100644
--- a/include/linux/srcu.h
+++ b/include/linux/srcu.h
@@ -139,7 +139,12 @@ static inline int srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)
  * @sp: srcu_struct in which to register the new reader.
  *
  * Enter an SRCU read-side critical section.  Note that SRCU read-side
- * critical sections may be nested.
+ * critical sections may be nested.  However, it is illegal to
+ * call anything that waits on an SRCU grace period for the same
+ * srcu_struct, whether directly or indirectly.  Please note that
+ * one way to indirectly wait on an SRCU grace period is to acquire
+ * a mutex that is held elsewhere while calling synchronize_srcu() or
+ * synchronize_srcu_expedited().
  */
 static inline int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp)
 {
-- 
1.7.0.6


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-20 18:45 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/7] Yet more RCU commits queued for 2.6.37 Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-20 18:45 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/7] rcu: permit suppressing current grace period's CPU stall warnings Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-20 18:45 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/7] rcu: repair code-duplication FIXMEs Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-20 18:45 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/7] rcu: document ways of stalling updates in low-memory situations Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-20 18:45 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2010-08-20 18:45 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/7] rcu: combine duplicate code, courtesy of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-20 18:45 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/7] rcu: apply TINY_PREEMPT_RCU read-side speedup to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-20 18:45 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 7/7] rcu: add comment stating that list_empty() applies to RCU-protected lists Paul E. McKenney

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