@@ -69,7 +69,13 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
6969 Explicit disabling of preemption (preempt_disable(), for example)
7070 can serve as rcu_read_lock_sched(), but is less readable and
7171 prevents lockdep from detecting locking issues. Acquiring a
72- spinlock also enters an RCU read-side critical section.
72+ raw spinlock also enters an RCU read-side critical section.
73+
74+ The guard(rcu)() and scoped_guard(rcu) primitives designate
75+ the remainder of the current scope or the next statement,
76+ respectively, as the RCU read-side critical section. Use of
77+ these guards can be less error-prone than rcu_read_lock(),
78+ rcu_read_unlock(), and friends.
7379
7480 Please note that you *cannot * rely on code known to be built
7581 only in non-preemptible kernels. Such code can and will break,
@@ -405,9 +411,11 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
40541113. Unlike most flavors of RCU, it *is * permissible to block in an
406412 SRCU read-side critical section (demarked by srcu_read_lock()
407413 and srcu_read_unlock()), hence the "SRCU": "sleepable RCU".
408- Please note that if you don't need to sleep in read-side critical
409- sections, you should be using RCU rather than SRCU, because RCU
410- is almost always faster and easier to use than is SRCU.
414+ As with RCU, guard(srcu)() and scoped_guard(srcu) forms are
415+ available, and often provide greater ease of use. Please note
416+ that if you don't need to sleep in read-side critical sections,
417+ you should be using RCU rather than SRCU, because RCU is almost
418+ always faster and easier to use than is SRCU.
411419
412420 Also unlike other forms of RCU, explicit initialization and
413421 cleanup is required either at build time via DEFINE_SRCU()
@@ -443,10 +451,13 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
443451 real-time workloads than is synchronize_rcu_expedited().
444452
445453 It is also permissible to sleep in RCU Tasks Trace read-side
446- critical section, which are delimited by rcu_read_lock_trace() and
447- rcu_read_unlock_trace(). However, this is a specialized flavor
448- of RCU, and you should not use it without first checking with
449- its current users. In most cases, you should instead use SRCU.
454+ critical section, which are delimited by rcu_read_lock_trace()
455+ and rcu_read_unlock_trace(). However, this is a specialized
456+ flavor of RCU, and you should not use it without first checking
457+ with its current users. In most cases, you should instead
458+ use SRCU. As with RCU and SRCU, guard(rcu_tasks_trace)() and
459+ scoped_guard(rcu_tasks_trace) are available, and often provide
460+ greater ease of use.
450461
451462 Note that rcu_assign_pointer() relates to SRCU just as it does to
452463 other forms of RCU, but instead of rcu_dereference() you should
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