Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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In commit 22df776a ("tasks: Extract rcu_users out of union"), the 'refcount_t rcu_users' field was extracted out of a union with the 'struct rcu_head rcu' field. This allows us to safely perform a refcount_inc_not_zero() on task->rcu_users when acquiring a reference on a task struct. A prior patch leveraged this by making struct task_struct an RCU-protected object in the verifier, and by bpf_task_acquire() to use the task->rcu_users field for synchronization. Now that we can use RCU to protect tasks, we no longer need bpf_task_kptr_get(), or bpf_task_acquire_not_zero(). bpf_task_kptr_get() is truly completely unnecessary, as we can just use RCU to get the object. bpf_task_acquire_not_zero() is now equivalent to bpf_task_acquire(). In addition to these changes, this patch also updates the associated selftests to no longer use these kfuncs. Signed-off-by:David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230331195733.699708-3-void@manifault.com Signed-off-by:
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>