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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-08-07 13:11:22 +0000 |
| commit | b20732900e4636a467c0183a47f7396700f5f743 (patch) | |
| tree | 42f079ff82e701ebcb76829974b4caca3e5b6798 /Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst | |
| parent | Adding upstream version 6.8.12. (diff) | |
| download | linux-b20732900e4636a467c0183a47f7396700f5f743.tar.xz linux-b20732900e4636a467c0183a47f7396700f5f743.zip | |
Adding upstream version 6.9.7.upstream/6.9.7
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst index 659d591378..2524dcdadd 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst @@ -408,7 +408,10 @@ member of the rcu_dereference() to use in various situations: RCU flavors, an RCU read-side critical section is entered using rcu_read_lock(), anything that disables bottom halves, anything that disables interrupts, or anything that disables - preemption. + preemption. Please note that spinlock critical sections + are also implied RCU read-side critical sections, even when + they are preemptible, as they are in kernels built with + CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y. 2. If the access might be within an RCU read-side critical section on the one hand, or protected by (say) my_lock on the other, |