synchronize_rcu(9)

synchronize_rcu9

Wait until a grace period has elapsed.

Usage

void synchronize_rcu(void);

Arguments

void

no arguments

Overview

Control will return to the caller some time after a full grace period has elapsed, in other words after all currently executing RCU read-side critical sections have completed. Note, however, that upon return from synchronize_rcu, the caller might well be executing concurrently with new RCU read-side critical sections that began while synchronize_rcu was waiting. RCU read-side critical sections are delimited by rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock, and may be nested.

See the description of synchronize_sched for more detailed information on memory ordering guarantees.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 8

From linux-manual-3.16 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.