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 03/10] Update call_rcu() usage, add synchronize_rcu()
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:15:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1281392111-25060-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100809221447.GA24358@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Kyle Hubert <khubert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
---
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(&obj->list);
cache_num--;
-+ call_rcu(&obj->rcu, cache_delete_rcu, obj);
++ call_rcu(&obj->rcu, cache_delete_rcu);
}
/* Must be holding cache_lock */
--
1.7.0.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-09 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-09 22:14 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/N] Additional RCU commits queued for 2.6.37 Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-09 22:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/10] rcu head remove init Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-09 22:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/10] Update documentation to note the passage of INIT_RCU_HEAD() Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-09 22:15 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2010-08-09 22:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/10] rcu: allow RCU CPU stall warning messages to be controlled in /sys Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-09 22:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/10] rcu: restrict TREE_RCU to SMP builds with !PREEMPT Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-09 22:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/10] rcu: Allow RCU CPU stall warnings to be off at boot, but manually enablable Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-09 22:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/10] rcu: Fix RCU_FANOUT help message Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-09 22:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/10] rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCU Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-16 15:07 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-16 18:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-16 19:19 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-16 21:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-16 21:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-16 21:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-16 22:07 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-16 22:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-17 9:36 ` Lai Jiangshan
2010-08-17 14:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-17 13:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-08-17 14:16 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-17 14:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-08-17 15:55 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-17 16:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-08-17 16:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-08-17 16:25 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-17 19:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-17 20:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-09 22:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/10] rcu: update obsolete rcu_read_lock() comment Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-16 14:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-16 17:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-16 18:24 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-08-09 22:15 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/10] rcu: refer RCU CPU stall-warning victims to stallwarn.txt Paul E. McKenney
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