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| author |   Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2012-02-27 09:28:10 -0800 |
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| committer |   Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-04-30 10:48:22 -0700 |
| commit | 18108ebfebe9e871d0a9af830baf8f5df69eb5fc (patch) | |
| tree | 363127aced66530e6c6808a55462e10c3e8fedb8 /include/linux/srcu.h | |
| parent | rcu: Flip ->completed only once per SRCU grace period (diff) | |
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rcu: Improve SRCU's wait_idx() comments
The safety of SRCU is provided byy wait_idx() rather than flipping.
The flipping actually prevents starvation.
This commit therefore updates the comments to more accurately and
precisely describe what is going on.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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