kernel-ark/Documentation/RCU
Paul E. McKenney 6e67669678 documentation: Document call_rcu() safety mechanisms and limitations
The call_rcu() family of primitives will take action to accelerate
grace periods when the number of callbacks pending on a given CPU
becomes excessive.  Although this safety mechanism can be useful,
it is no substitute for users of call_rcu() having rate-limit controls
in place.  This commit adds this nuance to the documentation.

Reported-by: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 14:55:58 -08:00
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00-INDEX Documentation/: update 00-INDEX files 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
arrayRCU.txt
checklist.txt documentation: Document call_rcu() safety mechanisms and limitations 2014-02-17 14:55:58 -08:00
listRCU.txt rcu: Update docs to include kfree_rcu() 2012-11-08 11:44:25 -08:00
lockdep-splat.txt
lockdep.txt rcu: Documentation update 2013-03-12 14:09:02 -07:00
NMI-RCU.txt
rcu.txt
rcubarrier.txt rcu: Fix rcu_barrier() documentation 2013-08-18 17:05:32 -07:00
rculist_nulls.txt
rcuref.txt rcu: Document alternative RCU/reference-count algorithms 2012-11-08 11:44:38 -08:00
RTFP.txt rcu: Update RTFP documentation 2013-08-19 21:39:27 -07:00
stallwarn.txt rcu: Update stall-warning documentation 2013-09-25 06:49:37 -07:00
torture.txt rcu: Increase rcutorture test coverage 2013-08-20 11:38:41 -07:00
trace.txt Merge branches 'doc.2013.12.03a', 'fixes.2013.12.12a', 'rcutorture.2013.12.03a' and 'sparse.2013.12.12a' into HEAD 2013-12-12 12:35:38 -08:00
UP.txt
whatisRCU.txt rcu: Remove srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(). 2013-06-10 13:45:25 -07:00