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rcu: Clarify memory-ordering properties of grace-period primitives
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:47:01 +0000 (13:47 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:46:32 +0000 (11:46 -0800)
commit626c60d3eeb0ab18381583b91bb6f90cb5a3e4e7
tree22b66fc8ac9b95586866ddb447dcc8712d441c14
parentb1d06a66c67220faca8f1f0efa8a752151f5fab1
rcu: Clarify memory-ordering properties of grace-period primitives

This commit explicitly states the memory-ordering properties of the
RCU grace-period primitives.  Although these properties were in some
sense implied by the fundmental property of RCU ("a grace period must
wait for all pre-existing RCU read-side critical sections to complete"),
stating it explicitly will be a great labor-saving device.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
include/linux/rcupdate.h
kernel/rcutree.c
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h