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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst index addd5c1547a4..3e6407de231c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.rst @@ -383,16 +383,17 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! must use whatever locking or other synchronization is required to safely access and/or modify that data structure. - Do not assume that RCU callbacks will be executed on the same - CPU that executed the corresponding call_rcu() or call_srcu(). - For example, if a given CPU goes offline while having an RCU - callback pending, then that RCU callback will execute on some - surviving CPU. (If this was not the case, a self-spawning RCU - callback would prevent the victim CPU from ever going offline.) - Furthermore, CPUs designated by rcu_nocbs= might well *always* - have their RCU callbacks executed on some other CPUs, in fact, - for some real-time workloads, this is the whole point of using - the rcu_nocbs= kernel boot parameter. + Do not assume that RCU callbacks will be executed on + the same CPU that executed the corresponding call_rcu(), + call_srcu(), call_rcu_tasks(), call_rcu_tasks_rude(), or + call_rcu_tasks_trace(). For example, if a given CPU goes offline + while having an RCU callback pending, then that RCU callback + will execute on some surviving CPU. (If this was not the case, + a self-spawning RCU callback would prevent the victim CPU from + ever going offline.) Furthermore, CPUs designated by rcu_nocbs= + might well *always* have their RCU callbacks executed on some + other CPUs, in fact, for some real-time workloads, this is the + whole point of using the rcu_nocbs= kernel boot parameter. In addition, do not assume that callbacks queued in a given order will be invoked in that order, even if they all are queued on the |