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Commit 4b689330 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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documentation: Clarify RCU memory barriers and requirements



The RCU requirements do not make it absolutely clear that the
memory-barrier requirements are not intended to replace the fundamental
requirement that all pre-existing RCU readers complete before a grace
period completes.  This commit therefore pulls the memory-barrier
requirements into a separate section and explicitly calls out the
relationship between the memory-barrier requirements and the fundamental
requirement.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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