Commit d3d3a3cc authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

doc: Emphasize that "toy" RCU requires recursive rwlock

Reported-by: default avatar"yangzc@uit.com.cn" <yangzc@uit.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent 93728af0
......@@ -562,7 +562,9 @@ This section presents a "toy" RCU implementation that is based on
familiar locking primitives. Its overhead makes it a non-starter for
real-life use, as does its lack of scalability. It is also unsuitable
for realtime use, since it allows scheduling latency to "bleed" from
one read-side critical section to another.
one read-side critical section to another. It also assumes recursive
reader-writer locks: If you try this with non-recursive locks, and
you allow nested rcu_read_lock() calls, you can deadlock.
However, it is probably the easiest implementation to relate to, so is
a good starting point.
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