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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rcupdate.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index 981f9aa43353..b87aefa082e2 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -240,11 +240,14 @@ extern int rcu_pending(int cpu); * This means that all preempt_disable code sequences, including NMI and * hardware-interrupt handlers, in progress on entry will have completed * before this primitive returns. However, this does not guarantee that - * softirq handlers will have completed, since in some kernels + * softirq handlers will have completed, since in some kernels, these + * handlers can run in process context, and can block. * * This primitive provides the guarantees made by the (deprecated) * synchronize_kernel() API. In contrast, synchronize_rcu() only * guarantees that rcu_read_lock() sections will have completed. + * In "classic RCU", these two guarantees happen to be one and + * the same, but can differ in realtime RCU implementations. */ #define synchronize_sched() synchronize_rcu() |
