linux-toradex.git/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt, branch v3.2.56

rcu: document ways of stalling updates in low-memory situations

2010-08-20T16:00:14+00:00

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: add shiny new debug assists to Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt

2010-08-20T00:18:01+00:00

Add a section describing PROVE_RCU, DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD, and
the __rcu sparse checking to the RCU checklist.

Suggested-by: David Miller 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

rcu: Update docs for rcu_access_pointer and rcu_dereference_protected

2010-04-14T10:20:12+00:00

Update examples and lists of APIs to include these new
primitives.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU

2010-02-25T09:34:53+00:00

Adds a lockdep.txt file and updates checklist.txt and
whatisRCU.txt to reflect the new lockdep-enabled capabilities of
RCU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: 1Q2010 update for RCU documentation

2010-01-16T09:25:22+00:00

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 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Add synchronize_sched_expedited() rcutorture doc + updates

2009-07-03T08:02:29+00:00

This patch updates the rcutorture documentation to include
updated output format.  It also brings the RCU documentation up
to date.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com
Cc: zbr@ioremap.net
Cc: jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: jengelh@medozas.de
Cc: r000n@r000n.net
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: documentation 1Q09 update

2009-03-10T22:55:11+00:00

Update the RCU documentation to call out the need for callers of
primitives like call_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() to prevent subsequent RCU
readers from hazard.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()

2008-08-15T15:03:06+00:00

All of the in-tree uses of list_for_each_rcu() have been converted to
list_for_each_entry_rcu(), so list_for_each_rcu() can now be removed.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: 1Q08 RCU doc update, add call_rcu_sched()

2008-05-19T08:01:37+00:00

Long-delayed update to the RCU documentation, including adding the new
call_rcu_sched() and rcu_barrier_sched() APIs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

Document the fact that RCU callbacks can run in parallel

2007-07-16T16:05:47+00:00

Add an item to the RCU documentation checklist noting that RCU callbacks
can run in parallel.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds