linux-kernel - [PATCH rcu 10/13] rcu-tasks: Clarify read side section info for rcu_tasks

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Date:   Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:46:01 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, josh@...htriplett.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
        oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 10/13] rcu-tasks: Clarify read side section info for rcu_tasks_rude GP primitives

From: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>

RCU tasks rude variant does not check whether the current
running context on a CPU is usermode. Read side critical section ends
on transition to usermode execution, by the virtue of usermode
execution being schedulable. Clarify this in comments for
call_rcu_tasks_rude() and synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().

Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
index af7388849bed..8c63b4d23829 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
@@ -677,11 +677,11 @@ DEFINE_RCU_TASKS(rcu_tasks_rude, rcu_tasks_rude_wait_gp, call_rcu_tasks_rude,
  * period elapses, in other words after all currently executing RCU
  * read-side critical sections have completed. call_rcu_tasks_rude()
  * assumes that the read-side critical sections end at context switch,
- * cond_resched_rcu_qs(), or transition to usermode execution.  As such,
- * there are no read-side primitives analogous to rcu_read_lock() and
- * rcu_read_unlock() because this primitive is intended to determine
- * that all tasks have passed through a safe state, not so much for
- * data-structure synchronization.
+ * cond_resched_rcu_qs(), or transition to usermode execution (as
+ * usermode execution is schedulable). As such, there are no read-side
+ * primitives analogous to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() because
+ * this primitive is intended to determine that all tasks have passed
+ * through a safe state, not so much for data-structure synchronization.
  *
  * See the description of call_rcu() for more detailed information on
  * memory ordering guarantees.
@@ -699,8 +699,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu_tasks_rude);
  * grace period has elapsed, in other words after all currently
  * executing rcu-tasks read-side critical sections have elapsed.  These
  * read-side critical sections are delimited by calls to schedule(),
- * cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution, and (in theory,
- * anyway) cond_resched().
+ * cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution (which is a schedulable
+ * context), and (in theory, anyway) cond_resched().
  *
  * This is a very specialized primitive, intended only for a few uses in
  * tracing and other situations requiring manipulation of function preambles
-- 
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