Go to file
Paul E. McKenney c98cac603f rcu: Rename rcu_check_callbacks() to rcu_sched_clock_irq()
The name rcu_check_callbacks() arguably made sense back in the early
2000s when RCU was quite a bit simpler than it is today, but it has
become quite misleading, especially with the advent of dyntick-idle
and NO_HZ_FULL.  The rcu_check_callbacks() function is RCU's hook into
the scheduling-clock interrupt, and is now but one of many ways that
callbacks get promoted to invocable state.

This commit therefore changes the name to rcu_sched_clock_irq(),
which is the same number of characters and clearly indicates this
function's relation to the rest of the Linux kernel.  In addition, for
the sake of consistency, rcu_flavor_check_callbacks() is also renamed
to rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq().

While in the area, the header comments for both functions are reworked.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25 15:35:21 -08:00
Documentation rcu: Rename rcu_check_callbacks() to rcu_sched_clock_irq() 2019-01-25 15:35:21 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch openrisc: remove unneeded code in arch/openrisc/Makefile 2019-01-17 23:42:59 +09:00
block block: fix kerneldoc comment for blk_attempt_plug_merge() 2019-01-09 15:29:08 -07:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
drivers First 5.0 rc pull request 2019-01-18 17:17:20 +12:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs AFS fixes 2019-01-18 06:27:24 +12:00
include rcu: Rename rcu_check_callbacks() to rcu_sched_clock_irq() 2019-01-25 15:35:21 -08:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-14 10:37:09 +09:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel rcu: Rename rcu_check_callbacks() to rcu_sched_clock_irq() 2019-01-25 15:35:21 -08:00
lib sbitmap: Protect swap_lock from hardirq 2019-01-15 16:29:57 +12:00
mm mm/mmu_notifier: mm/rmap.c: Fix a mmu_notifier range bug in try_to_unmap_one 2019-01-10 02:58:21 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-01-16 05:13:36 +12:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-01-16 05:13:36 +12:00
scripts kbuild: remove unused baseprereq 2019-01-14 12:19:40 +09:00
security Merge branch 'fixes-v5.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-17 16:54:58 +12:00
sound remove dma_zalloc_coherent 2019-01-12 10:52:40 -08:00
tools tools/memory-model: Make scripts take "-j" abbreviation for "--jobs" 2019-01-21 11:07:04 +01:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt KVM: validate userspace input in kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect() 2019-01-11 18:38:07 +01:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Staging driver fixes for 5.0-rc2 2019-01-14 05:49:35 +12:00
Makefile kbuild: mark prepare0 as PHONY to fix external module build 2019-01-17 23:42:59 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.