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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>2019-01-09 14:48:09 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>2019-03-26 14:37:06 -0700
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doc: Remove obsolete RCU update functions from RCU documentation
Now that synchronize_rcu_bh, synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited, call_rcu_bh, rcu_barrier_bh, synchronize_sched, synchronize_sched_expedited, call_rcu_sched, rcu_barrier_sched, get_state_synchronize_sched, and cond_synchronize_sched are obsolete, let's remove them from the documentation aside from a small historical section. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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@@ -34,12 +34,11 @@ Similarly, any code that happens before the beginning of a given RCU grace
period is guaranteed to see the effects of all accesses following the end
of that grace period that are within RCU read-side critical sections.
-<p>This guarantee is particularly pervasive for <tt>synchronize_sched()</tt>,
-for which RCU-sched read-side critical sections include any region
+<p>Note well that RCU-sched read-side critical sections include any region
of code for which preemption is disabled.
Given that each individual machine instruction can be thought of as
an extremely small region of preemption-disabled code, one can think of
-<tt>synchronize_sched()</tt> as <tt>smp_mb()</tt> on steroids.
+<tt>synchronize_rcu()</tt> as <tt>smp_mb()</tt> on steroids.
<p>RCU updaters use this guarantee by splitting their updates into
two phases, one of which is executed before the grace period and