From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754476Ab2H3SpG (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:45:06 -0400 Received: from e37.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.158]:40138 "EHLO e37.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752823Ab2H3SpE (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:45:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:44:48 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu, patches@linaro.org Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation and rcutorture changes Message-ID: <20120830184448.GA31753@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12083018-7408-0000-0000-0000080A581E Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! This series covers changes to rcutorture and documentation updates. The individual patches in this series are as follows: 1. Update rcutorture default values so that casual rcutorture users will do more aggressive testing. 2. Make rcutorture track CPU-hotplug latency statistics. 3. Document SRCU's new-found ability to be used by offline and idle CPUs, and also emphasize SRCU's limitations. 4. Use the new pr_*() interfaces in rcutorture. 5. Prevent kthread-initialization races in rcutorture. Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | 6 + b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 9 +- b/kernel/rcutorture.c | 4 - kernel/rcutorture.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 4 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)