From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check()
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:49:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100806.144901.184847372.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100806212607.GA9410@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:26:07 -0700
> At long last, the following is the final patch blocking acceptance
> of Arnd's sparse annotations for RCU. It was itself blocked behind
> the definition of rcu_dereference_index_check(), which made it to
> mainline only just today.
>
> Would you be willing to ack this patch so that I can push it to -tip,
> along with Arnd's work and a bunch of other stuff?
...
> net: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check()
>
> The task_cls_classid() function applies rcu_dereference() to integers,
> which does not work with the shiny new sparse-based checking in
> rcu_dereference(). This commit therefore moves to the new RCU API
> rcu_dereference_index_check().
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
You should of course wait for Herbert's ACK too, but for
the record:
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
:-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-06 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 21:26 [PATCH] net: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check() Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-06 21:49 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-08-06 21:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-06 22:15 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-06 22:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
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