From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757617Ab0GNVTe (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:19:34 -0400 Received: from relay4-v.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.78]:45623 "EHLO mrelay4-v.mgt.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753103Ab0GNVTd (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:19:33 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 217.70.178.44 X-Originating-IP: 74.107.143.84 Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:19:02 -0700 From: Josh Triplett To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 0/30] RCU commits queued for 2.6.36/7 Message-ID: <20100714211901.GC4624@feather> References: <20100714200945.GA10535@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100714200945.GA10535@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:09:45PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > This patchset shows the patches queued for 2.6.36/7. These are not > yet ready to move upstream due to dependencies on commits moving up other > trees. The patches are as follows: > > 1-19. These are the remaining patches implementing Arnd's sparse-checking > work. #1 needs to go up the networking tree, but > will cause regressions until f5155b33277 ("rcu: add an > rcu_dereference_index_check()") reaches mainline. #2 depends > on #1, and many of the later patches (#3-#30) depend on #2. > Many of #3-#19 will go up non-tip trees. > 20. Update Documentation/RCU to remove the now-deprecated rcu_head > initialization macros. > 21. Fix long-standing DocBook example showing long-dead three-argument > variant of call_rcu(). > 22. Make the CPU stall warning timeout configurable at build time > with new RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT config parameter. > 23. Remove the now-deprecated rcu_head initialization macros. > This depends on a couple of patches removing their use that > are making their way up other maintainer trees. > 24. Document the new debug assists from Arnd, Mathieu, and myself. > 25. Add random preemption to rcutorture testing of preemptible > RCU, courtesy of Lai Jiangshan. > 26. Remove TREE_RCU's ->rda[] array in favor of the new __percpu > facility, also courtesy of Lai Jiangshan. > 27. Fixlet to #26 for RCU tracing. > 28. Rename __do_rcu_dereference_check() to rcu_lockdep_assert(), > given that Tetsuo Handa has found outside-of-RCU use for this > function. > 29. Add a boot parameter to suppress RCU CPU stall warnings. > 30. Update kerneldoc or rcu_read_lock(), call_rcu(), and > synchronize_rcu(). I replied to patches 27 and 29 with suggested changes. For all the rest: Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett - Josh Triplett