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Pull an urgent RCU fix from Paul E. McKenney: "This series contains a pair of commits that permit RCU synchronous grace periods (synchronize_rcu() and friends) to work correctly throughout boot. This eliminates the current "dead time" starting when the scheduler spawns its first taks and ending when the last of RCU's kthreads is spawned (this last happens during early_initcall() time). Although RCU's synchronous grace periods have long been documented as not working during this time, prior to 4.9, the expedited grace periods worked by accident, and some ACPI code came to rely on this unintentional behavior. (Note that this unintentional behavior was -not- reliable. For example, failures from ACPI could occur on !SMP systems and on systems booting with the rcu_normal kernel boot parameter.) Either way, there is a bug that needs fixing, and the 4.9 switch of RCU's expedited grace periods to workqueues could be considered to have caused a regression. This series therefore makes RCU's expedited grace periods operate correctly throughout the boot process. This has been demonstrated to fix the problems ACPI was encountering, and has the added longer-term benefit of simplifying RCU's behavior." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. 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.