tools/memory-model: Add documentation about SRCU read-side critical sections
authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:30:48 +0000 (10:30 -0500)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:02:21 +0000 (12:02 -0700)
commitde0418053215482cc61843244fc7c1385ddf63a7
treeef3b4ebcf13ebf29bf66ee0f32070b2f20bc0e55
parent762e9357e713a2025db05bc36a36a7afc248f9d3
tools/memory-model: Add documentation about SRCU read-side critical sections

Expand the discussion of SRCU and its read-side critical sections in
the Linux Kernel Memory Model documentation file explanation.txt.  The
new material discusses recent changes to the memory model made in
commit 6cd244c87428 ("tools/memory-model: Provide exact SRCU
semantics").

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhauser@huawei.com>
Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt