rcu: improve kerneldoc for rcu_read_lock(), call_rcu(), and synchronize_rcu()
Make it explicit that new RCU read-side critical sections that start after call_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() start might still be running after the end of the relevant grace period. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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@@ -546,9 +546,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu);
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* Control will return to the caller some time after a full grace
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* period has elapsed, in other words after all currently executing RCU
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* read-side critical sections have completed. RCU read-side critical
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* sections are delimited by rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(),
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* and may be nested.
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* read-side critical sections have completed. Note, however, that
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* upon return from synchronize_rcu(), the caller might well be executing
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* concurrently with new RCU read-side critical sections that began while
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* synchronize_rcu() was waiting. RCU read-side critical sections are
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* delimited by rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(), and may be nested.
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*/
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void synchronize_rcu(void)
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{
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