From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756148AbXIVRUa (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:20:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751131AbXIVRUV (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:20:21 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:50023 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750942AbXIVRUT (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:20:19 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:20:05 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Steven Rostedt , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add CRC checksum for RCU lists Message-ID: <20070922172005.GC11123@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <1190313251.4518.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070921171256.GA9059@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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