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documentation: No acquire/release for RCU readers
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sat, 1 Aug 2015 17:45:26 +0000 (10:45 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 6 Oct 2015 18:22:28 +0000 (11:22 -0700)
commit27566139b6e2f6cfe273e8bb0e538d7616c2ea00
tree695fea5b3782a263fb681e4f6ace2aed29d33f1d
parent19a5ecde086a6a5287978b12ae948fa691b197b7
documentation: No acquire/release for RCU readers

Documentation/memory-barriers.txt calls out RCU as one of the sets
of primitives associated with ACQUIRE and RELEASE.  There really
is an association in that rcu_assign_pointer() includes a RELEASE
operation, but a quick read can convince people that rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_read_unlock() have ACQUIRE and RELEASE semantics, which they do not.

This commit therefore removes RCU from this list in order to avoid
this confusion.

Reported-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt