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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index 0c134f8afc6f..bff2d8be1e18 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -328,6 +328,12 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! RCU rather than SRCU, because RCU is almost always faster and easier to use than is SRCU. + If you need to enter your read-side critical section in a + hardirq or exception handler, and then exit that same read-side + critical section in the task that was interrupted, then you need + to srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(), which avoid + the lockdep checking that would otherwise this practice illegal. + Also unlike other forms of RCU, explicit initialization and cleanup is required via init_srcu_struct() and cleanup_srcu_struct(). These are passed a "struct srcu_struct" |