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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2020-10-09 08:21:56 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2020-10-09 08:21:56 +0200 |
commit | b36c830f8c9b13bfe69b117e879153776c19ad82 (patch) | |
tree | 151b7e91a49ff894e11e0b24c0e8cf9675dd5d91 /Documentation/RCU | |
parent | 583090b1b8232e6eae243a9009699666153a13a9 (diff) | |
parent | 6fe208f63a79f4f726f3be2b78ea3dd40487b657 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull v5.10 RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:
- Debugging for smp_call_function().
- Strict grace periods for KASAN. The point of this series is to find
RCU-usage bugs, so the corresponding new RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD
Kconfig option depends on both DEBUG_KERNEL and RCU_EXPERT, and is
further disabled by dfefault. Finally, the help text includes
a goodly list of scary caveats.
- New smp_call_function() torture test.
- Torture-test updates.
- Documentation updates.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.rst | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.rst index 4a48e20a46f2..f4efd6897b09 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.rst @@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ exit and perhaps also vice versa. Therefore, whenever the ``->dynticks_nesting`` field is incremented up from zero, the ``->dynticks_nmi_nesting`` field is set to a large positive number, and whenever the ``->dynticks_nesting`` field is decremented down to zero, -the the ``->dynticks_nmi_nesting`` field is set to zero. Assuming that +the ``->dynticks_nmi_nesting`` field is set to zero. Assuming that the number of misnested interrupts is not sufficient to overflow the counter, this approach corrects the ``->dynticks_nmi_nesting`` field every time the corresponding CPU enters the idle loop from process diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst index 8f41ad0aa753..1ae79a10a8de 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst @@ -2162,7 +2162,7 @@ scheduling-clock interrupt be enabled when RCU needs it to be: this sort of thing. #. If a CPU is in a portion of the kernel that is absolutely positively no-joking guaranteed to never execute any RCU read-side critical - sections, and RCU believes this CPU to to be idle, no problem. This + sections, and RCU believes this CPU to be idle, no problem. This sort of thing is used by some architectures for light-weight exception handlers, which can then avoid the overhead of ``rcu_irq_enter()`` and ``rcu_irq_exit()`` at exception entry and @@ -2431,7 +2431,7 @@ However, there are legitimate preemptible-RCU implementations that do not have this property, given that any point in the code outside of an RCU read-side critical section can be a quiescent state. Therefore, *RCU-sched* was created, which follows “classic” RCU in that an -RCU-sched grace period waits for for pre-existing interrupt and NMI +RCU-sched grace period waits for pre-existing interrupt and NMI handlers. In kernels built with ``CONFIG_PREEMPT=n``, the RCU and RCU-sched APIs have identical implementations, while kernels built with ``CONFIG_PREEMPT=y`` provide a separate implementation for each. diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst index c7f147b8034f..fb3ff76c3e73 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ order to amortize their overhead over many uses of the corresponding APIs. There are at least three flavors of RCU usage in the Linux kernel. The diagram above shows the most common one. On the updater side, the rcu_assign_pointer(), -sychronize_rcu() and call_rcu() primitives used are the same for all three +synchronize_rcu() and call_rcu() primitives used are the same for all three flavors. However for protection (on the reader side), the primitives used vary depending on the flavor: |