rcu: Move docbook comments out of rcupdate.h

The include/linux/rcupdate.h file is included by more than 200
files, so shrinking it should provide some build-time benefits.
This commit therefore moves several docbook comments from rcupdate.h to
kernel/rcu/update.c, kernel/rcu/tree.c, and kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h, thus
reducing the number of times that the compiler has to scan these comments.
This likely provides only a small benefit, but every little bit helps.

This commit also fixes a malformed bulleted list noted by the 0day
Test Robot.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney
2017-05-03 08:34:57 -07:00
parent aaaad0bfac
commit a68a2bb28b
4 changed files with 89 additions and 123 deletions

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@@ -675,8 +675,37 @@ static void rcu_preempt_do_callbacks(void)
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
/*
* Queue a preemptible-RCU callback for invocation after a grace period.
/**
* call_rcu() - Queue an RCU callback for invocation after a grace period.
* @head: structure to be used for queueing the RCU updates.
* @func: actual callback function to be invoked after the grace period
*
* The callback function will be invoked some time after a full grace
* period elapses, in other words after all pre-existing RCU read-side
* critical sections have completed. However, the callback function
* might well execute concurrently with RCU read-side critical sections
* that started after call_rcu() was invoked. RCU read-side critical
* sections are delimited by rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(),
* and may be nested.
*
* Note that all CPUs must agree that the grace period extended beyond
* all pre-existing RCU read-side critical section. On systems with more
* than one CPU, this means that when "func()" is invoked, each CPU is
* guaranteed to have executed a full memory barrier since the end of its
* last RCU read-side critical section whose beginning preceded the call
* to call_rcu(). It also means that each CPU executing an RCU read-side
* critical section that continues beyond the start of "func()" must have
* executed a memory barrier after the call_rcu() but before the beginning
* of that RCU read-side critical section. Note that these guarantees
* include CPUs that are offline, idle, or executing in user mode, as
* well as CPUs that are executing in the kernel.
*
* Furthermore, if CPU A invoked call_rcu() and CPU B invoked the
* resulting RCU callback function "func()", then both CPU A and CPU B are
* guaranteed to execute a full memory barrier during the time interval
* between the call to call_rcu() and the invocation of "func()" -- even
* if CPU A and CPU B are the same CPU (but again only if the system has
* more than one CPU).
*/
void call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func)
{