Commit 28a0ee3
documentation: seqlock: fix the wrong documentation of read_seqbegin_or_lock/need_seqretry
The comments and pseudo code in Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst are wrong:
int seq = 0;
do {
read_seqbegin_or_lock(&foo_seqlock, &seq);
/* ... [[read-side critical section]] ... */
} while (need_seqretry(&foo_seqlock, seq));
read_seqbegin_or_lock() always returns with an even "seq" and need_seqretry()
doesn't change this counter. This means that seq is always even and thus the
locking pass is simply impossible.
IOW, "_or_lock" has no effect and this code doesn't differ from
do {
seq = read_seqbegin(&foo_seqlock);
/* ... [[read-side critical section]] ... */
} while (read_seqretry(&foo_seqlock, seq));
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>1 parent 44472d1 commit 28a0ee3
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