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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html index 8d21af02b1f0..c64f8d26609f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.html @@ -34,12 +34,11 @@ Similarly, any code that happens before the beginning of a given RCU grace period is guaranteed to see the effects of all accesses following the end of that grace period that are within RCU read-side critical sections. -<p>This guarantee is particularly pervasive for <tt>synchronize_sched()</tt>, -for which RCU-sched read-side critical sections include any region +<p>Note well that RCU-sched read-side critical sections include any region of code for which preemption is disabled. Given that each individual machine instruction can be thought of as an extremely small region of preemption-disabled code, one can think of -<tt>synchronize_sched()</tt> as <tt>smp_mb()</tt> on steroids. +<tt>synchronize_rcu()</tt> as <tt>smp_mb()</tt> on steroids. <p>RCU updaters use this guarantee by splitting their updates into two phases, one of which is executed before the grace period and |