rcu: Further comment and explain the state space of GP sequences
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:29:34 +0000 (14:29 +0100)
committerJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Wed, 5 Apr 2023 13:47:17 +0000 (13:47 +0000)
commit3636d8d114c648af2484f8049eb7ecb204c542c6
treec8eec3ca9f5b6b704e44d1b0374181944a448b33
parentfe15c26ee26efa11741a7b632e9f23b01aca4cc6
rcu: Further comment and explain the state space of GP sequences

The state space of the GP sequence number isn't documented and the
definitions of its special values are scattered.  This commit therefore
gathers some common knowledge near the grace-period sequence-number
definitions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
kernel/rcu/rcu.h