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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-04-20 19:22:15 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-06-15 02:01:42 +0300
commit810ce8b5df1c8338065f2ae1d2ec08cc566fbb8b (patch)
tree46d357bbd3a9cb28bc00ccce79814fdd1776bac1 /include/linux/rcupdate.h
parent40e0a6cfd53e37d9b8863cdbc0adb1f72e9311e7 (diff)
downloadlinux-810ce8b5df1c8338065f2ae1d2ec08cc566fbb8b.tar.xz
rcu: Document RCU_NONIDLE() restrictions in comment header
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rcupdate.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rcupdate.h11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 5f1533e3d032..c61b6b9506e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -379,12 +379,13 @@ static inline void rcu_init_nohz(void)
* in the inner idle loop.
*
* This macro provides the way out: RCU_NONIDLE(do_something_with_RCU())
- * will tell RCU that it needs to pay attending, invoke its argument
- * (in this example, a call to the do_something_with_RCU() function),
+ * will tell RCU that it needs to pay attention, invoke its argument
+ * (in this example, calling the do_something_with_RCU() function),
* and then tell RCU to go back to ignoring this CPU. It is permissible
- * to nest RCU_NONIDLE() wrappers, but the nesting level is currently
- * quite limited. If deeper nesting is required, it will be necessary
- * to adjust DYNTICK_TASK_NESTING_VALUE accordingly.
+ * to nest RCU_NONIDLE() wrappers, but not indefinitely (but the limit is
+ * on the order of a million or so, even on 32-bit systems). It is
+ * not legal to block within RCU_NONIDLE(), nor is it permissible to
+ * transfer control either into or out of RCU_NONIDLE()'s statement.
*/
#define RCU_NONIDLE(a) \
do { \