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Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
@@ -408,7 +408,10 @@ member of the rcu_dereference() to use in various situations:
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RCU flavors, an RCU read-side critical section is entered
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using rcu_read_lock(), anything that disables bottom halves,
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anything that disables interrupts, or anything that disables
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- preemption.
+ preemption. Please note that spinlock critical sections
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+ are also implied RCU read-side critical sections, even when
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+ they are preemptible, as they are in kernels built with
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+ CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y.
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2. If the access might be within an RCU read-side critical section
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on the one hand, or protected by (say) my_lock on the other,
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