Hello!
This series provides documentation updates:
1. Synchronous RCU grace periods are now legal throughout boot.
2. Add mid-boot operation to expedited grace periods.
3. Update stallwarn.txt to make causes more prominent.
4. Update RCU data-structure documentation for rcu_segcblist.
(Corresponding code changes are in the SRCU series.)
5. Update requirements based on recent changes.
6. doc: Update rcu_assign_pointer() definition in whatisRCU.txt.
7. Update the comparisons rule in rcu_dereference.txt, courtesy
of Michalis Kokologiannakis.
8. Emphasize that "toy" RCU requires recursive rwlock.
9. Update control-dependencies section of memory-barriers.txt,
courtesy of pierre Kuo.
Thanx, Paul
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RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.html | 207
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RCU/Design/Data-Structures/nxtlist.svg | 34 -
RCU/Design/Expedited-Grace-Periods/Expedited-Grace-Periods.html | 47 ++
RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 201
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RCU/rcu_dereference.txt | 9
RCU/stallwarn.txt | 190
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RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 33 -
memory-barriers.txt | 2
8 files changed, 469 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-)