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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2010-01-14 19:10:57 -0500 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-01-16 04:25:22 -0500 |
commit | 4c54005ca438a8b46dd542b497d4f0dc2ca375e8 (patch) | |
tree | 4274fb9dcbd94480b93fecefcf83969db53461ba /Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt | |
parent | b6407e863934965cdc66cbc244d811ceeb6f4d77 (diff) |
rcu: 1Q2010 update for RCU documentation
Add expedited functions. Review documentation and update
obsolete verbiage. Also fix the advice for the RCU CPU-stall
kernel configuration parameter, and document RCU CPU-stall
warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt | 48 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt index 2a23523ce471..31852705b586 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcu.txt | |||
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ o I hear that RCU is patented? What is with that? | |||
75 | search for the string "Patent" in RTFP.txt to find them. | 75 | search for the string "Patent" in RTFP.txt to find them. |
76 | Of these, one was allowed to lapse by the assignee, and the | 76 | Of these, one was allowed to lapse by the assignee, and the |
77 | others have been contributed to the Linux kernel under GPL. | 77 | others have been contributed to the Linux kernel under GPL. |
78 | There are now also LGPL implementations of user-level RCU | ||
79 | available (http://lttng.org/?q=node/18). | ||
78 | 80 | ||
79 | o I hear that RCU needs work in order to support realtime kernels? | 81 | o I hear that RCU needs work in order to support realtime kernels? |
80 | 82 | ||
@@ -91,48 +93,4 @@ o Where can I find more information on RCU? | |||
91 | 93 | ||
92 | o What are all these files in this directory? | 94 | o What are all these files in this directory? |
93 | 95 | ||
94 | 96 | See 00-INDEX for the list. | |
95 | NMI-RCU.txt | ||
96 | |||
97 | Describes how to use RCU to implement dynamic | ||
98 | NMI handlers, which can be revectored on the fly, | ||
99 | without rebooting. | ||
100 | |||
101 | RTFP.txt | ||
102 | |||
103 | List of RCU-related publications and web sites. | ||
104 | |||
105 | UP.txt | ||
106 | |||
107 | Discussion of RCU usage in UP kernels. | ||
108 | |||
109 | arrayRCU.txt | ||
110 | |||
111 | Describes how to use RCU to protect arrays, with | ||
112 | resizeable arrays whose elements reference other | ||
113 | data structures being of the most interest. | ||
114 | |||
115 | checklist.txt | ||
116 | |||
117 | Lists things to check for when inspecting code that | ||
118 | uses RCU. | ||
119 | |||
120 | listRCU.txt | ||
121 | |||
122 | Describes how to use RCU to protect linked lists. | ||
123 | This is the simplest and most common use of RCU | ||
124 | in the Linux kernel. | ||
125 | |||
126 | rcu.txt | ||
127 | |||
128 | You are reading it! | ||
129 | |||
130 | rcuref.txt | ||
131 | |||
132 | Describes how to combine use of reference counts | ||
133 | with RCU. | ||
134 | |||
135 | whatisRCU.txt | ||
136 | |||
137 | Overview of how the RCU implementation works. Along | ||
138 | the way, presents a conceptual view of RCU. | ||