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This adds an example for the important RCU grace period guarantee, which
shows an RCU reader can never span a grace period.

Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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LITMUS TESTS
============

RCU (/rcu directory)
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RCU+sync+read.litmus
RCU+sync+free.litmus
Both the above litmus tests demonstrate the RCU grace period guarantee
that an RCU read-side critical section can never span a grace period.
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C RCU+sync+read

(*
* Result: Never
*
* This litmus test demonstrates that after a grace period, an RCU updater always
* sees all stores done in prior RCU read-side critical sections. Such
* read-side critical sections would have ended before the grace period ended.
*
* This is one implication of the RCU grace-period guarantee, which says (among
* other things) that an RCU read-side critical section cannot span a grace period.
*)

{
int x = 0;
int y = 0;
}

P0(int *x, int *y)
{
rcu_read_lock();
WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1);
WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1);
rcu_read_unlock();
}

P1(int *x, int *y)
{
int r0;
int r1;

r0 = READ_ONCE(*x);
synchronize_rcu();
r1 = READ_ONCE(*y);
}

exists (1:r0=1 /\ 1:r1=0)

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