linux-toradex.git/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt, branch v3.4.93

rcu: Call out dangers of expedited RCU primitives

2012-02-21T17:06:08+00:00

The expedited RCU primitives can be quite useful, but they have some
high costs as well.  This commit updates and creates docbook comments
calling out the costs, and updates the RCU documentation as well.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Add documentation for raw SRCU read-side primitives

2011-12-11T18:31:41+00:00

Update various files in Documentation/RCU to reflect srcu_read_lock_raw()
and srcu_read_unlock_raw().  Credit to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting
use of the existing _raw suffix instead of the earlier bulkref names.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

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