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From: Rik Faith <faith@redhat.com>
To: paulmck@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com, rusty@au1.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Improve list.h documentation for _rcu() primitives
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:05:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16500.17103.665134.7465@neuro.alephnull.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: [Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>] Mon  5 Apr 2004 14:55:25 -0700

On Mon  5 Apr 2004 14:55:25 -0700,
   Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> The attached patch improves the documentation of the _rcu list
> primitives, as suggested off-list.
> 
> 						Thanx, Paul

Thanks for making these changes!

I recently used the _rcu list primitives for the audit framework and I
found that, even though I read the header file comments and the papers
that were referenced, and even though I then had a good understanding of
RCU, I missed some implementation details about how the primitives
themselves should be used inside the Linux kernel.

These new comments fill in those missing details -- I hope they are
accepted into the kernel.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-07 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-05 21:55 [RFC] [PATCH] Improve list.h documentation for _rcu() primitives Paul E. McKenney
2004-04-07  2:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-04-07 18:05 ` Rik Faith [this message]

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