From 2d999e03b7c8305b4385dd20992e4ed3e827177b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:06:18 -0700 Subject: rcu: update documentation/comments for Lai's adoption patch Lai's RCU-callback immediate-adoption patch changes the RCU tracing output, so update tracing.txt. Also update a few comments to clarify the synchronization design. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree.c | 10 ++++++---- kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 669d7fe049d1..120820ffc657 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1668,7 +1668,9 @@ static void _rcu_barrier(struct rcu_state *rsp, * decrement rcu_barrier_cpu_count -- otherwise the first CPU * might complete its grace period before all of the other CPUs * did their increment, causing this function to return too - * early. + * early. Note that on_each_cpu() disables irqs, which prevents + * any CPUs from coming online or going offline until each online + * CPU has queued its RCU-barrier callback. */ atomic_set(&rcu_barrier_cpu_count, 1); on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, (void *)call_rcu_func, 1); @@ -1797,9 +1799,9 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_cpu_notify(struct notifier_block *self, case CPU_DYING: case CPU_DYING_FROZEN: /* - * The whole machine is "stopped" except this cpu, so we can - * touch any data without introducing corruption. And we send - * the callbacks to an attribute chosen online cpu. + * The whole machine is "stopped" except this CPU, so we can + * touch any data without introducing corruption. We send the + * dying CPU's callbacks to an arbitrarily chosen online CPU. */ rcu_send_cbs_to_online(&rcu_bh_state); rcu_send_cbs_to_online(&rcu_sched_state); diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h index 0de359be5b41..643c8f650dd0 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ static void __cpuinit rcu_preempt_init_percpu_data(int cpu) } /* - * Move preemptable DYING RCU's callbacks to other online CPU. + * Move preemptable RCU's callbacks from dying CPU to other online CPU. */ static void rcu_preempt_send_cbs_to_online(void) { -- cgit v1.3-18-gd494