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author | Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> | 2005-12-12 00:37:05 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-12-12 08:57:42 -0800 |
commit | ab4720ec76b756e1f8705e207a7b392b0453afd6 (patch) | |
tree | 1c4235ec8ac0e8e7f75a6f97ea6169e93647004f /Documentation | |
parent | 85b872424984e79519be904e7df02a91ba0a9486 (diff) |
[PATCH] add rcu_barrier() synchronization point
This introduces a new interface - rcu_barrier() which waits until all
the RCUs queued until this call have been completed.
Reiser4 needs this, because we do more than just freeing memory object
in our RCU callback: we also remove it from the list hanging off
super-block. This means, that before freeing reiser4-specific portion
of super-block (during umount) we have to wait until all pending RCU
callbacks are executed.
The only change of reiser4 made to the original patch, is exporting of
rcu_barrier().
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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