805b13adde
After more careful studying, Paul informs me that we cannot rely on
ordering of RCU callbacks in the way that the the tagged commit did.
The current construct looks like this:
void C(struct rcu_head *rhp)
{
do_something(rhp);
call_rcu(&p->rh, B);
}
call_rcu(&p->rh, A);
call_rcu(&p->rh, C);
and we're relying on ordering between A and B, which isn't guaranteed.
Make this explicit instead, and have a work item issue the rcu_barrier()
to ensure that A has run before we manually execute B.
While thorough testing never showed this issue, it's dependent on the
per-cpu load in terms of RCU callbacks. The updated method simplifies
the code as well, and eliminates the need to maintain an rcu_head in
the fileset data.
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.