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Frederic Weisbecker c28adacc14 rcu/doc: Add a quick quiz to explain further why we need smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() 
Add some missing critical pieces of explanation to understand the need
for full memory barriers throughout the whole grace period state machine,
thanks to Paul's explanations.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Adjust code block per Akira Yokosawa. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
History 2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
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rcu_node-lock.svg documentation: RCU grace-period memory ordering guarantees 2017-10-09 14:23:36 -07:00
Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst rcu/doc: Add a quick quiz to explain further why we need smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() 2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
TreeRCU-callback-invocation.svg rcu: Rename rcu_check_callbacks() to rcu_sched_clock_irq() 2019-01-25 15:35:21 -08:00
TreeRCU-callback-registry.svg documentation: RCU grace-period memory ordering guarantees 2017-10-09 14:23:36 -07:00
TreeRCU-dyntick.svg documentation: RCU grace-period memory ordering guarantees 2017-10-09 14:23:36 -07:00
TreeRCU-gp-cleanup.svg doc: Update memory-ordering documentation for ->gp-seq 2018-07-12 15:38:51 -07:00
TreeRCU-gp-fqs.svg documentation: RCU grace-period memory ordering guarantees 2017-10-09 14:23:36 -07:00
TreeRCU-gp-init-1.svg doc: Update memory-ordering documentation for ->gp-seq 2018-07-12 15:38:51 -07:00
TreeRCU-gp-init-2.svg documentation: RCU grace-period memory ordering guarantees 2017-10-09 14:23:36 -07:00
TreeRCU-gp-init-3.svg doc: Update memory-ordering documentation for ->gp-seq 2018-07-12 15:38:51 -07:00
TreeRCU-gp.svg Documentation: Rename rcu_node_context_switch() to rcu_note_context_switch() 2019-10-29 02:48:29 -07:00
TreeRCU-hotplug.svg documentation: RCU grace-period memory ordering guarantees 2017-10-09 14:23:36 -07:00
TreeRCU-qs.svg Documentation: Rename rcu_node_context_switch() to rcu_note_context_switch() 2019-10-29 02:48:29 -07:00