An update to the RCU documentation calling out the self-limiting-update-rate advantages of synchronize_rcu(), and describing how to use call_rcu() in a way that results in self-limiting updates. Self-limiting updates are important to avoiding RCU-induced OOM in face of denial-of-service attacks. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |
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| arrayRCU.txt | ||
| checklist.txt | ||
| listRCU.txt | ||
| NMI-RCU.txt | ||
| rcu.txt | ||
| rcuref.txt | ||
| RTFP.txt | ||
| torture.txt | ||
| UP.txt | ||
| whatisRCU.txt | ||