documentation: Present updated RCU guarantee
Recent memory-model work deduces the relationships of RCU read-side critical sections and grace periods based on the relationships of accesses within a critical section and accesses preceding and following the grace period. This commit therefore adds this viewpoint. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ The <tt>rcu_access_pointer()</tt> on line 6 is similar to
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It could reuse a value formerly fetched from this same pointer.
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It could also fetch the pointer from <tt>gp</tt> in a byte-at-a-time
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manner, resulting in <i>load tearing</i>, in turn resulting a bytewise
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mash-up of two distince pointer values.
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mash-up of two distinct pointer values.
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It might even use value-speculation optimizations, where it makes
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a wrong guess, but by the time it gets around to checking the
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value, an update has changed the pointer to match the wrong guess.
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In other words, a given instance of <tt>synchronize_rcu()</tt>
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can avoid waiting on a given RCU read-side critical section only
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if it can prove that <tt>synchronize_rcu()</tt> started first.
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<p>
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A related question is “When <tt>rcu_read_lock()</tt>
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doesn't generate any code, why does it matter how it relates
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to a grace period?”
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The answer is that it is not the relationship of
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<tt>rcu_read_lock()</tt> itself that is important, but rather
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the relationship of the code within the enclosed RCU read-side
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critical section to the code preceding and following the
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grace period.
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If we take this viewpoint, then a given RCU read-side critical
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section begins before a given grace period when some access
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preceding the grace period observes the effect of some access
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within the critical section, in which case none of the accesses
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within the critical section may observe the effects of any
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access following the grace period.
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<p>
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As of late 2016, mathematical models of RCU take this
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viewpoint, for example, see slides 62 and 63
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of the
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<a href="http://www2.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/scalability/paper/LinuxMM.2016.10.04c.LCE.pdf">2016 LinuxCon EU</a>
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presentation.
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