Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] RCU commits for 3.4

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hello, Ingo,
> 
> The major features of this series are making RCU more aggressive about
> entering dyntick-idle mode in order to improve energy efficiency,
> converting a few more call_rcu()s to kfree_rcu()s, applying a number
> of rcutree fixes and cleanups to rcutiny, removing CONFIG_SMP #ifdefs
> from treercu, allowing RCU CPU stall times to be set via sysfs, adding
> CPU-stall capability to rcutorture, adding more RCU-abuse diagnostics,
> updating documentation, and fixing yet more issue located in the
> still-ongoing top-to-bottom inspection of RCU, this time with a special
> focus on the CPU-hotplug code path.

I stuck this nice list into the merge commit, for future 
generations.

> Three of the kfree_rcu() conversions have not yet received 
> acks (s390, tcm_fc, and mac80211), but the maintainers have 
> been CCed on multiple LKML postings and -next testing has not 
> shown any problems.
> 
> These commits have been posted to LKML (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/3/459
> and https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/21/228) and have received -next testing.
> They are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git rcu/next

Pulled, thanks a lot Paul!

	Ingo