rcu: Remove obsolete reference to synchronize_kernel()

The synchronize_kernel() primitive was removed in favor of
synchronize_sched() more than a decade ago, and it seems likely that
rather few kernel hackers are familiar with it.  Its continued presence
is therefore providing more confusion than enlightenment.  This commit
therefore removes the reference from the synchronize_sched() header
comment, and adds the corresponding information to the synchronize_rcu(0
header comment.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-17 09:59:53 -07:00
parent 1dcf2806ec
commit e28371c891
2 changed files with 7 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -3280,12 +3280,6 @@ static inline int rcu_blocking_is_gp(void)
* to have executed a full memory barrier during the execution of
* synchronize_sched() -- even if CPU A and CPU B are the same CPU (but
* again only if the system has more than one CPU).
*
* This primitive provides the guarantees made by the (now removed)
* synchronize_kernel() API. In contrast, synchronize_rcu() only
* guarantees that rcu_read_lock() sections will have completed.
* In "classic RCU", these two guarantees happen to be one and
* the same, but can differ in realtime RCU implementations.
*/
void synchronize_sched(void)
{