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| author | Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> | 2006-03-14 17:05:45 -0600 |
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| committer | Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> | 2006-03-14 17:05:45 -0600 |
| commit | c5111f504d2a9b0d258d7c4752b4093523315989 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a52864aff79691689aea21cb0cb928327d5de5b /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
| parent | 69eb66d7da7dba2696281981347698e1693c2340 (diff) | |
| parent | a488edc914aa1d766a4e2c982b5ae03d5657ec1b (diff) | |
Merge with /home/shaggy/git/linus-clean/
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index e118a7c1a09..49e27cc1938 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -177,3 +177,9 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! If you want to wait for some of these other things, you might instead need to use synchronize_irq() or synchronize_sched(). + +12. Any lock acquired by an RCU callback must be acquired elsewhere + with irq disabled, e.g., via spin_lock_irqsave(). Failing to + disable irq on a given acquisition of that lock will result in + deadlock as soon as the RCU callback happens to interrupt that + acquisition's critical section. |