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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>2018-11-21 22:35:03 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>2019-01-26 02:35:21 +0300
commitc98cac603f1ce7d00e2a802b5640bced3bc3c1f2 (patch)
tree496e873aa9644697b35e203c736d9c738b01684f /include/linux/rcupdate.h
parent2aa5503026ceaa8860697b93c9e5bbbcd025ba89 (diff)
downloadlinux-c98cac603f1ce7d00e2a802b5640bced3bc3c1f2.tar.xz
rcu: Rename rcu_check_callbacks() to rcu_sched_clock_irq()
The name rcu_check_callbacks() arguably made sense back in the early 2000s when RCU was quite a bit simpler than it is today, but it has become quite misleading, especially with the advent of dyntick-idle and NO_HZ_FULL. The rcu_check_callbacks() function is RCU's hook into the scheduling-clock interrupt, and is now but one of many ways that callbacks get promoted to invocable state. This commit therefore changes the name to rcu_sched_clock_irq(), which is the same number of characters and clearly indicates this function's relation to the rest of the Linux kernel. In addition, for the sake of consistency, rcu_flavor_check_callbacks() is also renamed to rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq(). While in the area, the header comments for both functions are reworked. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rcupdate.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rcupdate.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 632113946757..6f8f047c4068 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ static inline int rcu_preempt_depth(void)
/* Internal to kernel */
void rcu_init(void);
extern int rcu_scheduler_active __read_mostly;
-void rcu_check_callbacks(int user);
+void rcu_sched_clock_irq(int user);
void rcu_report_dead(unsigned int cpu);
void rcutree_migrate_callbacks(int cpu);