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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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search for the string "Patent" in Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt to find them.
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Of these, one was allowed to lapse by the assignee, and the
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others have been contributed to the Linux kernel under GPL.
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Many (but not all) have long since expired.
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There are now also LGPL implementations of user-level RCU
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available (https://liburcu.org/).
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- I hear that RCU needs work in order to support realtime kernels?
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Realtime-friendly RCU can be enabled via the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
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Realtime-friendly RCU are enabled via the CONFIG_PREEMPTION
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kernel configuration parameter.
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- Where can I find more information on RCU?