From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757671AbZBFDFz (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:05:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752152AbZBFDFr (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:05:47 -0500 Received: from tomts36.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.93]:35566 "EHLO tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751815AbZBFDFr (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:05:47 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsIEAKI0i0lMQWt2/2dsb2JhbACBbs1RhBYG Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 22:05:43 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: "Paul E. McKenney" , ltt-dev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC git tree] Userspace RCU (urcu) for Linux Message-ID: <20090206030543.GB8560@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 21:00:12 up 36 days, 1:58, 8 users, load average: 0.16, 0.40, 0.34 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Paul, I figured out I needed some userspace RCU for the userspace tracing part of LTTng (for quick read access to the control variables) to trace userspace pthread applications. So I've done a quick-and-dirty userspace RCU implementation. It works so far, but I have not gone through any formal verification phase. It seems to work on paper, and the tests are also OK (so far), but I offer no guarantee for this 300-lines-ish 1-day hack. :-) If you want to comment on it, it would be welcome. It's a userland-only library. It's also currently x86-only, but only a few basic definitions must be adapted in urcu.h to port it. Here is the link to my git tree : git://lttng.org/userspace-rcu.git http://lttng.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=userspace-rcu.git;a=summary Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68