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    rcu: Add full-sized polling for start_poll() · 76ea3641
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    The start_poll_synchronize_rcu() API compresses the combined expedited and
    normal grace-period states into a single unsigned long, which conserves
    storage, but can miss grace periods in certain cases involving overlapping
    normal and expedited grace periods.  Missing the occasional grace period
    is usually not a problem, but there are use cases that care about each
    and every grace period.
    
    This commit therefore adds the next member of the full-state RCU
    grace-period polling API, namely the start_poll_synchronize_rcu_full()
    function.  This uses up to three times the storage (rcu_gp_oldstate
    structure instead of unsigned long), but is guaranteed not to miss
    grace periods.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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