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There are a number of places that call out the fact that preempt-disable regions of code now act as RCU read-side critical sections, where preempt-disable regions of code include irq-disable regions of code, bh-disable regions of code, hardirq handlers, and NMI handlers. However, someone relying solely on (for example) the call_rcu() header comment might well have no idea that preempt-disable regions of code have RCU semantics. This commit therefore updates the header comments for call_rcu(), synchronize_rcu(), rcu_dereference_bh_check(), and rcu_dereference_sched_check() to call out these new(ish) forms of RCU readers. Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> [ paulmck: Apply Matthew Wilcox and Michel Lespinasse feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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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.