Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:27:12 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 0/30] RCU commits queued for 2.6.36/7 |
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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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