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Paul E. McKenney 4e025f52a1 rcu: IPI all CPUs at GP end for strict GPs
Currently, each CPU discovers the end of a given grace period on its
own time, which is again good for efficiency but bad for fast grace
periods, given that it is things like kfree() within the RCU callbacks
that will cause trouble for pointers leaked from RCU read-side critical
sections.  This commit therefore uses on_each_cpu() to IPI each CPU
after grace-period cleanup in order to inform each CPU of the end of
the old grace period in a timely manner, but only in kernels build with
CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y.

Reported-by Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-08-24 18:40:26 -07:00
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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:

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several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.