doc: Mention address and data dependencies in rcu_dereference.rst
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fri, 20 Oct 2023 17:51:26 +0000 (10:51 -0700)
committerNeeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:46:28 +0000 (01:16 +0530)
commitc49956be75152a533787f5daa06ef4b710207499
tree42d45baf3b74c8747bef2e48154ebc72df586660
parent1b7178b23dc915fc6801ff3eeb6c4ffa51b562f7
doc: Mention address and data dependencies in rcu_dereference.rst

This commit adds discussion of address and data dependencies to the
beginning of rcu_dereference.rst in order to enable readers to more
easily make the connection to the Linux-kernel memory model in general
and to memory-barriers.txt in particular.

Reported-by: Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhauser@huaweicloud.com>
Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst