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This patch adds srcu_read_lock_lite() and srcu_read_unlock_lite(), which dispense with the read-side smp_mb() but also are restricted to code regions that RCU is watching. If a given srcu_struct structure uses srcu_read_lock_lite() and srcu_read_unlock_lite(), it is not permitted to use any other SRCU read-side marker, before, during, or after. Another price of light-weight readers is heavier weight grace periods. Such readers mean that SRCU grace periods on srcu_struct structures used by light-weight readers will incur at least two calls to synchronize_rcu(). In addition, normal SRCU grace periods for light-weight-reader srcu_struct structures never auto-expedite. Note that expedited SRCU grace periods for light-weight-reader srcu_struct structures still invoke synchronize_rcu(), not synchronize_srcu_expedited(). Something about wishing to keep the IPIs down to a dull roar. The srcu_read_lock_lite() and srcu_read_unlock_lite() functions may not (repeat, *not*) be used from NMI handlers, but if this is needed, an additional flavor of SRCU reader can be added by some future commit. [ paulmck: Apply Alexei Starovoitov expediting feedback. ] [ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
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