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Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:21:13 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/27] rcu: Add comment documenting how
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:08:55AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 07:14:54PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 05:35:02PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> > > 
> > > rcu_seq_snap may be tricky to decipher. Lets document how it works with
> > > an example to make it easier.
> > 
> > Since you had me looking at them functions; why isn't rcu_seq_snap()
> > using smp_load_acquire() and rcu_seq_end() using smp_store_release() ?
> > Their respective comments seem to suggest that would be sufficent.
> 
> I do not believe that this would suffice.  Would it make sense to refer
> to Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering in the comment header?

No, because I can't read that thing in an editor.

> Except that this would invite sprinkling this pathname far and wide...
> 
> The key point is that these functions are part of the any-to-any
> memory-ordering guarantee that RCU grace periods provide.

Then the existing comment is misleading and really needs change.