From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753538Ab3DMSa7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:30:59 -0400 Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:59291 "EHLO relay3-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753088Ab3DMSa5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:30:57 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 50.43.39.152 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:30:49 -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@efficios.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/12] TINY_RCU changes for 3.11 Message-ID: <20130413183049.GC12096@leaf> References: <20130412234810.GA23678@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130412234810.GA23678@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 04:48:10PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > This series removes TINY_PREEMPT_RCU, as promised/threatened at > http://lwn.net/Articles/541037/ and https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/12/545. > > 1. Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. This is a straight syntactic removal, > with no attempt at cleanup. The remaining patches do the cleanup. > > 2. Inline the now-empty show_tiny_preempt_stats() function. > > 3. Inline the now-empty rcu_preempt_check_callbacks() function. > > 4. Inline the now-empty rcu_preempt_remove_callbacks() function. > > 5. Inline the now-empty rcu_preempt_process_callbacks() function. > > 6. Because TINY_RCU no longer has kthreads, remove the code that > used to abstract away kthread vs. softirq invocation. > > 7. Inline the now-empty check_cpu_stall_preempt() function. > > 8. Remove CONFIG_TINY_RCU ifdefs from include/linux/rcutiny.h > > 9. Inline the now-empty rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() function. > > 10. Move code to allow consolidating ifdefs in kernel/rcutiny_plugin.h. > > 11. Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU's tracing formats from documentation. > > 12. Shrink TINY_RCU a bit by moving exit_rcu() to TREE_RCU, leaving > TINY_RCU with a static inline empty function. For 2-7 and 9-12: Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett I responded to patch 8 with a note about moving part of it to patch 1; with that changed, Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett for those two as well.