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rcu: Document SRCU dead-CPU capabilities, emphasize read-side limits
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 3 Aug 2012 23:41:23 +0000 (16:41 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:00:32 +0000 (17:00 -0700)
commite5fcf5b241f61e49d785261bcccb15412232eddb
treefbc6a6fcc7e1aef1d11443a918632fd0b80dd8ef
parent31f7eb663d8261c6d423b16fa43ed6fa0e598de5
rcu: Document SRCU dead-CPU capabilities, emphasize read-side limits

The current documentation did not help someone grepping for SRCU to
learn that disabling preemption is not a replacement for srcu_read_lock(),
so upgrade the documentation to bring this out, not just for SRCU,
but also for RCU-bh.  Also document the fact that SRCU readers are
respected on CPUs executing in user mode, idle CPUs, and even on
offline CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt