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rcu: Document separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seq
authorJoel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:01:54 +0000 (16:01 -0400)
committerNeeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:40:31 +0000 (17:10 +0530)
commit186779c036468038b0d077ec5333a51512f867e5
treea7cd463c843631cf2bdfe72e169316ee89869724
parent30a7806adab5f6b971cf07439ed6a3fac3fd80cf
rcu: Document separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seq

The details of this are subtle and was discussed recently. Add a
quick-quiz about this and refer to it from the code, for more clarity.

Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.rst
kernel/rcu/tree.c