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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst index 7fdf151a8680..5750f125361b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ an ``atomic_add_return()`` of zero) to detect idle CPUs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ The approach must be extended to handle one final case, that of waking a -task blocked in ``synchronize_rcu()``. This task might be affinitied to +task blocked in ``synchronize_rcu()``. This task might be affined to a CPU that is not yet aware that the grace period has ended, and thus might not yet be subject to the grace period's memory ordering. Therefore, there is an ``smp_mb()`` after the return from |