Re: [PATCH 0/4 v2] [GIT PULL][RCU][3.12] tracing/rcu: Export strings to userspace

Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-02T16:32:46Z

On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 12:22:39PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 08:51 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > I have merged these into v3.11-rc3 in my local tree like this:
> >
> > # git log --pretty=oneline v3.11-rc3..
> > a6f8eb9e4c18ba0e9a2ed4d2dec888440da12549 Merge branch 'ftrace/rcu-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into rostedt.2013.08.02a
> > f7f7bac9cb1c50783f15937a11743655a5756a36 rcu: Have the RCU tracepoints use the tracepoint_string infrastructure
> > a41bfeb2f8ed59410be7ca0f8fbc6138a758b746 rcu: Simplify RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() macro
> > e66c33d579ea566d10e8c8695a7168aae3e02992 rcu: Add const annotation to char * for RCU tracepoints and functions
> > 102c9323c35a83789ad5ebd3c45fa8fb389add88 tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointers
> >
> > Amazingly enough, there is only one trivial conflict with the current
> > 3.12 RCU commits, so my plan is to treat these commits as a separate
> > topic branch for RCU.
>
> Sounds good. Thanks!

Ah -- unlike my normal approach, I will -not- be rebasing this particular
topic branch, so we should be able to both send them upstream without
any problems.

Famous last words. ;-)

Thanx, Paul