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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-08-22 13:56:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-23 10:32:40 +0200 |
| commit | 6b3ef48adf847f7adf11c870e3ffacac150f1564 (patch) | |
| tree | e1403ce515bf00ade99ec806f6ab6b6db999aa0b /Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | |
| parent | f41d911f8c49a5d65c86504c19e8204bb605c4fd (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6b3ef48adf847f7adf11c870e3ffacac150f1564.tar.gz lwn-6b3ef48adf847f7adf11c870e3ffacac150f1564.zip | |
rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no
further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Remove it, along with
whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index 97ded2432c59..e41a7fecf0d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -136,10 +136,10 @@ rcu_read_lock() Used by a reader to inform the reclaimer that the reader is entering an RCU read-side critical section. It is illegal to block while in an RCU read-side critical section, though - kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU can preempt RCU read-side - critical sections. Any RCU-protected data structure accessed - during an RCU read-side critical section is guaranteed to remain - unreclaimed for the full duration of that critical section. + kernels built with CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU can preempt RCU + read-side critical sections. Any RCU-protected data structure + accessed during an RCU read-side critical section is guaranteed to + remain unreclaimed for the full duration of that critical section. Reference counts may be used in conjunction with RCU to maintain longer-term references to data structures. |