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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:11:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080801211123.GE14851@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730182239.346811562@goodmis.org>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:20:54PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Seems that I found a box that has a config that passes call_rcu_bh as a
> function pointer (see net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c), so declaring the
> call_rcu_bh has a macro function isn't good enough.
> 
> This patch makes it just another name of call_rcu for rcupreempt.

Looks good!

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.org>
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/rcupreempt.h |    8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-compile.git/include/linux/rcupreempt.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-compile.git.orig/include/linux/rcupreempt.h	2008-07-30 13:56:28.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-compile.git/include/linux/rcupreempt.h	2008-07-30 13:57:57.000000000 -0400
> @@ -57,7 +57,13 @@ static inline void rcu_qsctr_inc(int cpu
>  	rdssp->sched_qs++;
>  }
>  #define rcu_bh_qsctr_inc(cpu)
> -#define call_rcu_bh(head, rcu) call_rcu(head, rcu)
> +
> +/*
> + * Someone might want to pass call_rcu_bh as a function pointer.
> + * So this needs to just be a rename and not a macro function.
> + *  (no parentheses)
> + */
> +#define call_rcu_bh	 	call_rcu
> 
>  /**
>   * call_rcu_sched - Queue RCU callback for invocation after sched grace period.
> 
> -- 

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-01 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30 18:20 [PATCH 0/2] RCU preempt updates Steven Rostedt
2008-07-30 18:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro Steven Rostedt
2008-08-01 21:11   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2008-08-15 15:54     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-30 18:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak Steven Rostedt
2008-08-01 21:11   ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-08-15 15:55     ` Ingo Molnar

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