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diff --git a/Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst b/Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst index 3fb7ea3ab22a..9899871d3d9a 100644 --- a/Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst +++ b/Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst @@ -220,13 +220,14 @@ Read path, three categories: according to a passed marker. This is used to avoid lockless readers starvation (too much retry loops) in case of a sharp spike in write activity. First, a lockless read is tried (even marker passed). If - that trial fails (odd sequence counter is returned, which is used as - the next iteration marker), the lockless read is transformed to a - full locking read and no retry loop is necessary:: + that trial fails (sequence counter doesn't match), make the marker + odd for the next iteration, the lockless read is transformed to a + full locking read and no retry loop is necessary, for example:: /* marker; even initialization */ - int seq = 0; + int seq = 1; do { + seq++; /* 2 on the 1st/lockless path, otherwise odd */ read_seqbegin_or_lock(&foo_seqlock, &seq); /* ... [[read-side critical section]] ... */ |