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Commit 6c502b14 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: Add full-sized polling for start_poll_expedited()



The start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited() API compresses the combined
expedited and normal grace-period states into a single unsigned long,
which conserves storage, but can miss grace periods in certain cases
involving overlapping normal and expedited grace periods.  Missing the
occasional grace period is usually not a problem, but there are use
cases that care about each and every grace period.

This commit therefore adds yet another member of the
full-state RCU grace-period polling API, which is the
start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited_full() function.  This uses up to
three times the storage (rcu_gp_oldstate structure instead of unsigned
long), but is guaranteed not to miss grace periods.

[ paulmck: Apply feedback from kernel test robot and Julia Lawall. ]

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 76ea3641
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