rcu: 1Q2010 update for RCU documentation

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 <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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 <mingo@elte.hu>
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Paul E. McKenney
2010-01-14 16:10:57 -08:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent b6407e8639
commit 4c54005ca4
9 changed files with 256 additions and 134 deletions
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@@ -327,7 +327,8 @@ a. synchronize_rcu() rcu_read_lock() / rcu_read_unlock()
b. call_rcu_bh() rcu_read_lock_bh() / rcu_read_unlock_bh()
c. synchronize_sched() preempt_disable() / preempt_enable()
c. synchronize_sched() rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched()
preempt_disable() / preempt_enable()
local_irq_save() / local_irq_restore()
hardirq enter / hardirq exit
NMI enter / NMI exit