linux-stable/Documentation/RCU
NeilBrown 7c0be9f890 doc: Add refcount analogy to What is RCU
The reader-writer-lock analogy is a useful way to think about RCU, but
it is not always applicable.  It is useful to have other analogies to
work with, and particularly to emphasise that no single analogy is
perfect.

This patch add a "RCU as reference count" to the "what is RCU" document.

See https://lwn.net/Articles/872559/

[ paulmck: Apply Akira Yokosawa feedback. ]
Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-11-30 17:23:06 -08:00
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Design rcu: Fix undefined Kconfig macros 2021-09-13 16:32:46 -07:00
arrayRCU.rst doc: Convert arrayRCU.txt to arrayRCU.rst 2019-12-10 18:51:19 -08:00
checklist.rst Documentation/RCU: Fix emphasis markers 2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
index.rst docs: RCU: Convert stallwarn.txt to ReST 2020-06-29 11:58:11 -07:00
listRCU.rst doc/RCU/listRCU: Update example function name 2020-02-27 07:03:13 -08:00
lockdep-splat.rst docs: RCU: Convert lockdep-splat.txt to ReST 2020-06-29 11:58:10 -07:00
lockdep.rst docs: Fix function name trailing double-()s 2020-08-24 17:19:07 -06:00
NMI-RCU.rst drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support 2021-01-29 10:06:24 +05:30
rcu.rst doc/RCU/rcu: Use https instead of http if possible 2020-02-27 07:03:13 -08:00
rcu_dereference.rst Documentation/RCU: Fix emphasis markers 2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
rcubarrier.rst doc: Use CONFIG_PREEMPTION 2021-01-06 16:10:44 -08:00
rculist_nulls.rst docs: RCU: Don't duplicate chapter names in rculist_nulls.rst 2020-06-29 11:58:11 -07:00
rcuref.rst docs: RCU: Convert rcuref.txt to ReST 2020-06-29 11:58:11 -07:00
RTFP.txt docs: Correctly spell Stephen Hemminger's name 2021-03-15 13:53:24 -07:00
stallwarn.rst doc: Add another stall-warning root cause in stallwarn.rst 2021-09-13 16:32:46 -07:00
torture.rst docs: RCU: Convert torture.txt to ReST 2020-06-29 11:58:11 -07:00
UP.rst doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq 2019-06-28 09:10:40 -06:00
whatisRCU.rst doc: Add refcount analogy to What is RCU 2021-11-30 17:23:06 -08:00