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    rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections · 1893afd6
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    
    
    There are a number of places that call out the fact that preempt-disable
    regions of code now act as RCU read-side critical sections, where
    preempt-disable regions of code include irq-disable regions of code,
    bh-disable regions of code, hardirq handlers, and NMI handlers.  However,
    someone relying solely on (for example) the call_rcu() header comment
    might well have no idea that preempt-disable regions of code have RCU
    semantics.
    
    This commit therefore updates the header comments for
    call_rcu(), synchronize_rcu(), rcu_dereference_bh_check(), and
    rcu_dereference_sched_check() to call out these new(ish) forms of RCU
    readers.
    Reported-by: default avatarMichel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>
    [ paulmck: Apply Matthew Wilcox and Michel Lespinasse feedback. ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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