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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, |