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Akira Yokosawa e3879ecd36 Documentation/RCU: Fix emphasis markers
"-foo-" does not work as emphasis in ReST markdown.
Use "*foo*" instead.

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen e74c74f9e5 doc: Give XDP as example of non-obvious RCU reader/updater pairing
This commit gives an example of non-obvious RCU reader/updater pairing
in the guise of the XDP feature in networking, which calls BPF programs
from network-driver NAPI (softirq) context.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-4-toke@redhat.com
2021-06-24 19:41:14 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 9a145c04a2 doc: Clarify and expand RCU updaters and corresponding readers
This commit clarifies which primitives readers can use given that the
corresponding updaters have made a specific choice.  This commit also adds
this information for the various RCU Tasks flavors.  While in the area, it
removes a paragraph that no longer applies in any straightforward manner.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-3-toke@redhat.com
2021-06-24 19:41:14 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 81ad58be2f doc: Use CONFIG_PREEMPTION
CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today
depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.

Update the documents and mention CONFIG_PREEMPTION. Spell out
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT (instead PREEMPT_RT) since it is an option now.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-01-06 16:10:44 -08:00
Paul Gortmaker 9d3a04853f docs: Fix typos and drop/fix dead links in RCU documentation
It appears the Compaq link moved to a machine at HP for a while
after the merger of the two, but that doesn't work either.  A search
of HP for "wiz_2637" (w and w/o html suffix) comes up empty.

Since the references aren't critical to the documents we remove them.

Also, the lkml.kernel.org/g links have been broken for ages, so replace
them with lore.kernel.org/r links - standardize on lore for all links too.

Note that we put off fixing these 4y ago - presumably thinking that a
treewide fixup was pending.  Probably safe to go fix the RCU ones now.

https://lore.kernel.org/r/20160915144926.GD10850@linux.vnet.ibm.com/

Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-01-04 13:35:14 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 86b5a7381b doc: Present the role of READ_ONCE()
This commit adds an explanation of the special cases where READ_ONCE()
may be used in place of a member of the rcu_dereference() family.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-11-02 17:07:15 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 6b05dfacd7 docs: RCU: Convert checklist.txt to ReST
- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Use the right list markups;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-06-29 11:58:10 -07:00