Hello! This series provides documentation updates: 1. Synchronous RCU grace periods are now legal throughout boot. 2. Add mid-boot operation to expedited grace periods. 3. Update stallwarn.txt to make causes more prominent. 4. Update RCU data-structure documentation for rcu_segcblist. (Corresponding code changes are in the SRCU series.) 5. Update requirements based on recent changes. 6. doc: Update rcu_assign_pointer() definition in whatisRCU.txt. 7. Update the comparisons rule in rcu_dereference.txt, courtesy of Michalis Kokologiannakis. 8. Emphasize that "toy" RCU requires recursive rwlock. 9. Update control-dependencies section of memory-barriers.txt, courtesy of pierre Kuo. Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.html | 207 ++++++---- RCU/Design/Data-Structures/nxtlist.svg | 34 - RCU/Design/Expedited-Grace-Periods/Expedited-Grace-Periods.html | 47 ++ RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 201 ++++++--- RCU/rcu_dereference.txt | 9 RCU/stallwarn.txt | 190 ++++----- RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 33 - memory-barriers.txt | 2 8 files changed, 469 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html