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@@ -177,3 +177,9 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
If you want to wait for some of these other things, you might
instead need to use synchronize_irq() or synchronize_sched().
+
+12. Any lock acquired by an RCU callback must be acquired elsewhere
+ with irq disabled, e.g., via spin_lock_irqsave(). Failing to
+ disable irq on a given acquisition of that lock will result in
+ deadlock as soon as the RCU callback happens to interrupt that
+ acquisition's critical section.