[PATCH] Fix comment to synchronize_sched()
Fix to broken comment to synchronize_rcu() noted by Keith Owens. Also add sentence noting that synchronize_sched() and synchronize_rcu() are not necessarily identical. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@ -240,11 +240,14 @@ extern int rcu_pending(int cpu);
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* This means that all preempt_disable code sequences, including NMI and
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* hardware-interrupt handlers, in progress on entry will have completed
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* before this primitive returns. However, this does not guarantee that
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* softirq handlers will have completed, since in some kernels
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* softirq handlers will have completed, since in some kernels, these
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* handlers can run in process context, and can block.
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*
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* This primitive provides the guarantees made by the (deprecated)
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* synchronize_kernel() API. In contrast, synchronize_rcu() only
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* guarantees that rcu_read_lock() sections will have completed.
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* In "classic RCU", these two guarantees happen to be one and
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* the same, but can differ in realtime RCU implementations.
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*/
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#define synchronize_sched() synchronize_rcu()
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