Re: [PATCH rcu 1/7] locking/lockdep: Introduce lock_sync()

From: Boqun Feng
Date: Mon Mar 20 2023 - 13:58:05 EST


On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 10:06:14AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2023, Boqun Feng wrote:
>
> > +/*
> > + * lock_sync() - A special annotation for synchronize_{s,}rcu()-like API.
> > + *
> > + * No actual critical section is created by the APIs annotated with this: these
> > + * APIs are used to wait for one or multiple critical sections (on other CPUs
> > + * or threads), and it means that calling these APIs inside these critical
> > + * sections is potential deadlock.
> > + *
> > + * This annotation acts as an acqurie+release anontation pair with hardirqoff
> ^acquire

Good eye! Applied locally.

Regards,
Boqun