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Date:   Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:31:59 +0100
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH doc 1/2] Documentation/locking/locktypes: Update migrate_disable() bits.

The initial implementation of migrate_disable() for mainline was a
wrapper around preempt_disable(). RT kernels substituted this with
a real migrate disable implementation.

Later on mainline gained true migrate disable support, but the
documentation was not updated.

Update the documentation, remove the claims about migrate_disable()
mapping to preempt_disable() on non-PREEMPT_RT kernels.

Fixes: 74d862b682f51 ("sched: Make migrate_disable/enable() independent of RT")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
---
 Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst b/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst
index ddada4a537493..4fd7b70fcde19 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst
@@ -439,11 +439,9 @@ not allow to acquire p->lock because get_cpu_ptr() implicitly disables
   spin_lock(&p->lock);
   p->count += this_cpu_read(var2);
 
-On a non-PREEMPT_RT kernel migrate_disable() maps to preempt_disable()
-which makes the above code fully equivalent. On a PREEMPT_RT kernel
 migrate_disable() ensures that the task is pinned on the current CPU which
 in turn guarantees that the per-CPU access to var1 and var2 are staying on
-the same CPU.
+the same CPU while the task remains preemptible.
 
 The migrate_disable() substitution is not valid for the following
 scenario::
@@ -456,9 +454,8 @@ The migrate_disable() substitution is not valid for the following
     p = this_cpu_ptr(&var1);
     p->val = func2();
 
-While correct on a non-PREEMPT_RT kernel, this breaks on PREEMPT_RT because
-here migrate_disable() does not protect against reentrancy from a
-preempting task. A correct substitution for this case is::
+This breaks because migrate_disable() does not protect against reentrancy from
+a preempting task. A correct substitution for this case is::
 
   func()
   {
-- 
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