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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 0/30] RCU commits queued for 2.6.36/7
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 02:19:02PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:09:45PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > This patchset shows the patches queued for 2.6.36/7. These are not
> > yet ready to move upstream due to dependencies on commits moving up other
> > trees. The patches are as follows:
> >
> > 1-19. These are the remaining patches implementing Arnd's sparse-checking
> > work. #1 needs to go up the networking tree, but
> > will cause regressions until f5155b33277 ("rcu: add an
> > rcu_dereference_index_check()") reaches mainline. #2 depends
> > on #1, and many of the later patches (#3-#30) depend on #2.
> > Many of #3-#19 will go up non-tip trees.
> > 20. Update Documentation/RCU to remove the now-deprecated rcu_head
> > initialization macros.
> > 21. Fix long-standing DocBook example showing long-dead three-argument
> > variant of call_rcu().
> > 22. Make the CPU stall warning timeout configurable at build time
> > with new RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT config parameter.
> > 23. Remove the now-deprecated rcu_head initialization macros.
> > This depends on a couple of patches removing their use that
> > are making their way up other maintainer trees.
> > 24. Document the new debug assists from Arnd, Mathieu, and myself.
> > 25. Add random preemption to rcutorture testing of preemptible
> > RCU, courtesy of Lai Jiangshan.
> > 26. Remove TREE_RCU's ->rda[] array in favor of the new __percpu
> > facility, also courtesy of Lai Jiangshan.
> > 27. Fixlet to #26 for RCU tracing.
> > 28. Rename __do_rcu_dereference_check() to rcu_lockdep_assert(),
> > given that Tetsuo Handa has found outside-of-RCU use for this
> > function.
> > 29. Add a boot parameter to suppress RCU CPU stall warnings.
> > 30. Update kerneldoc or rcu_read_lock(), call_rcu(), and
> > synchronize_rcu().
>
> I replied to patches 27 and 29 with suggested changes. For all the
> rest:
>
> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

Thank you very much for looking this over!

Thanx, Paul


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