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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:46:02 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/12] rcu: Fix outdated rcu_scheduler_active comment
The comment header for rcu_scheduler_active states that it is used
to optimize synchronize_sched() at early boot. This is incorrect.
The synchronize_sched() function instead checks the number of online
CPUs. This commit therefore replaces the comment's synchronize_sched()
with synchronize_rcu(), which really does use rcu_scheduler_active for
this purpose.
Reported-by: Lihao Liang <lihao.liang@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index c7f1bc4f817c..0fa692f1094e 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ int rcu_num_nodes __read_mostly = NUM_RCU_NODES; /* Total # rcu_nodes in use. */
* The rcu_scheduler_active variable transitions from zero to one just
* before the first task is spawned. So when this variable is zero, RCU
* can assume that there is but one task, allowing RCU to (for example)
- * optimize synchronize_sched() to a simple barrier(). When this variable
+ * optimize synchronize_rcu() to a simple barrier(). When this variable
* is one, RCU must actually do all the hard work required to detect real
* grace periods. This variable is also used to suppress boot-time false
* positives from lockdep-RCU error checking.
--
2.5.2
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