From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add CRC checksum for RCU lists
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:20:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070922172005.GC11123@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B4DA08E1-19C1-4D46-B480-0B880F1443C9@mac.com>
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 03:04:47AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Sep 21, 2007, at 17:32:08, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >>On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 02:34:11PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >>>-#define RCU_HEAD_INIT { .next = NULL, .func = NULL }
> >>>+#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_CRC_HEADER_CHECK
> >>>+
> >>>+#define RCU_CRC_MAGIC 0xC4809168UL
> >>
> >>Very magic indeed -- Google doesn't find it, other than in your
> >>patch. ;-)
> >
> >Paul, I'm disappointed in you. That number doesn't ring a bell at
> >all??
> >
> >(hint, ignore the 'C' that was added by me).
>
> LOL! The RCU patent number; very clever indeed!
Y'know, I newer did figure this one out!
I like it!!! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-22 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 18:34 [RFC PATCH] Add CRC checksum for RCU lists Steven Rostedt
2007-09-21 12:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-21 13:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-09-21 13:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-21 13:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-09-21 17:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-09-21 21:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-09-22 7:04 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-09-22 17:20 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2007-09-22 17:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
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