Paul E. McKenney 1c77e862b8 srcu: Document srcu_flip() memory-barrier D relation to SRCU-fast ...

The smp_mb() memory barrier at the end of srcu_flip() has a comment,
but that comment does not make it clear that this memory barrier is an
optimization, as opposed to being needed for correctness.  This commit
therefore adds this information and points out that it is omitted
for SRCU-fast, where a much heavier weight synchronize_srcu() would
be required.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>

2025-09-15 05:16:28 -07:00

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