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When the grace period kthread checks the extended quiescent state counter of a CPU, full ordering is necessary to ensure that either: * If the GP kthread observes the remote target in an extended quiescent state, then that target must observe all accesses prior to the current grace period, including the current grace period sequence number, once it exits that extended quiescent state. or: * If the GP kthread observes the remote target NOT in an extended quiescent state, then the target further entering in an extended quiescent state must observe all accesses prior to the current grace period, including the current grace period sequence number, once it enters that extended quiescent state. This ordering is enforced through a full memory barrier placed right before taking the first EQS snapshot. However this is superfluous because the snapshot is taken while holding the target's rnp lock which provides the necessary ordering through its chain of smp_mb__after_unlock_lock(). Remove the needless explicit barrier before the snapshot and put a comment about the implicit barrier newly relied upon here. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.