* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> [2013-10-08 12:25:07]:
> From: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
>
> It is functionally equivalent to
>
> struct rcu_sync_struct {
> atomic_t counter;
> };
>
> static inline bool rcu_sync_is_idle(struct rcu_sync_struct *xxx)
> {
> return atomic_read(&xxx->counter) == 0;
> }
>
> static inline void rcu_sync_enter(struct rcu_sync_struct *xxx)
> {
> atomic_inc(&xxx->counter);
> synchronize_sched();
> }
>
> static inline void rcu_sync_enter(struct rcu_sync_struct *xxx)
Guess you meant rcu_sync_exit
> {
> synchronize_sched();
> atomic_dec(&xxx->counter);
> }
>
> except: it records the state and synchronize_sched() is only called by
> rcu_sync_enter() and only if necessary.
>
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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju
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