From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Pranith Kumar <pranith@gatech.edu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/torture.c: unmark torture_init_* as __inline
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:47:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140416214730.GC4496@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJhHMCD9rcyp07pWn7L1ojpv57ducYezCh-g25J3LfvuubJ_gQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 05:34:26PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Good catch, queued for 3.16! I missed it because of my habit of building
> > the torture tests directly into the kernel rather than loading them
> > as modules. So thank you both for the patch and for your testing efforts!
>
> You are welcome!
>
> > Just out of curiosity, what are you thinking of using this for?
> >
>
> I am exploring RCU in my research, looking for ways to apply the ideas
> to GPGPU and was studying the source code in the kernel. I will
> hopefully be using this in the future.
Nice! Please let me know how it goes!
> (I should probably stick to userspace rcu :)
It might be better suited to your needs, but by all means continue
testing and inspecting the Linux-kernel RCU! It does feel good to
get rid of some of the cruft, and I probably would never spot it.
Thank you again!
Thanx, Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-16 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-16 19:37 [PATCH 1/1] kernel/torture.c: unmark torture_init_* as __inline Pranith Kumar
2014-04-16 19:40 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-04-16 20:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-04-16 21:34 ` Pranith Kumar
2014-04-16 21:47 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
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