Commit 120311ac authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Boqun Feng

doc: Spinlocks are implied RCU readers

In kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=n, spinlock critical sections
are RCU readers because they disable preemption.  However, they are also
RCU readers in CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y because the -rt locking primitives
contain rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().  Therefore, upgrade
rcu_dereference.rst to document this non-obvious case.
Reported-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whGKvjHCtJ6W4pQ0_h_k9fiFQ8V2GpM=BqYnB2X=SJ+XQ@mail.gmail.com/Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
parent 41bccc98
......@@ -408,7 +408,10 @@ member of the rcu_dereference() to use in various situations:
RCU flavors, an RCU read-side critical section is entered
using rcu_read_lock(), anything that disables bottom halves,
anything that disables interrupts, or anything that disables
preemption.
preemption. Please note that spinlock critical sections
are also implied RCU read-side critical sections, even when
they are preemptible, as they are in kernels built with
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y.
2. If the access might be within an RCU read-side critical section
on the one hand, or protected by (say) my_lock on the other,
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