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

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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



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