rcu: Clarify fill-the-gap comment in rcu_segcblist_advance()
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reported-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Reported-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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@ -505,10 +505,10 @@ void rcu_segcblist_advance(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp, unsigned long seq)
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WRITE_ONCE(rsclp->tails[j], rsclp->tails[RCU_DONE_TAIL]);
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/*
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* Callbacks moved, so clean up the misordered ->tails[] pointers
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* that now point into the middle of the list of ready-to-invoke
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* callbacks. The overall effect is to copy down the later pointers
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* into the gap that was created by the now-ready segments.
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* Callbacks moved, so there might be an empty RCU_WAIT_TAIL
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* and a non-empty RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL. If so, copy the
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* RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL segment to fill the RCU_WAIT_TAIL gap
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* created by the now-ready-to-invoke segments.
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*/
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for (j = RCU_WAIT_TAIL; i < RCU_NEXT_TAIL; i++, j++) {
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if (rsclp->tails[j] == rsclp->tails[RCU_NEXT_TAIL])
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