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rcu-tasks: Clarify read side section info for rcu_tasks_rude GP primitives 

RCU tasks rude variant does not check whether the current
running context on a CPU is usermode. Read side critical section ends
on transition to usermode execution, by the virtue of usermode
execution being schedulable. Clarify this in comments for
call_rcu_tasks_rude() and synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().

Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Neeraj Upadhyay 2021-08-18 12:58:43 +05:30 committed by Paul E. McKenney
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@ -677,11 +677,11 @@ DEFINE_RCU_TASKS(rcu_tasks_rude, rcu_tasks_rude_wait_gp, call_rcu_tasks_rude,
* period elapses, in other words after all currently executing RCU
* read-side critical sections have completed. call_rcu_tasks_rude()
* assumes that the read-side critical sections end at context switch,
* cond_resched_rcu_qs(), or transition to usermode execution. As such,
* there are no read-side primitives analogous to rcu_read_lock() and
* rcu_read_unlock() because this primitive is intended to determine
* that all tasks have passed through a safe state, not so much for
* data-structure synchronization.
* cond_resched_rcu_qs(), or transition to usermode execution (as
* usermode execution is schedulable). As such, there are no read-side
* primitives analogous to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() because
* this primitive is intended to determine that all tasks have passed
* through a safe state, not so much for data-structure synchronization.
*
* See the description of call_rcu() for more detailed information on
* memory ordering guarantees.
@ -699,8 +699,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu_tasks_rude);
* grace period has elapsed, in other words after all currently
* executing rcu-tasks read-side critical sections have elapsed. These
* read-side critical sections are delimited by calls to schedule(),
* cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution, and (in theory,
* anyway) cond_resched().
* cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution (which is a schedulable
* context), and (in theory, anyway) cond_resched().
*
* This is a very specialized primitive, intended only for a few uses in
* tracing and other situations requiring manipulation of function preambles