From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754169Ab3KPAKT (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:10:19 -0500 Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:42849 "EHLO e39.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753626Ab3KPAKL (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:10:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:10:05 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, 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, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/4] Documentation changes for 3.14 Message-ID: <20131116001005.GA28191@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-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13111600-9332-0000-0000-0000022BB696 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! This series contains documentation updates: 1. Fix a typo in Documentation/RCU/trace.txt. 2. Fix formatting blows in kernel-parameters.txt. 3. Fix memory barrier usage in the circular-buffer example. 4. Replace some memory barriers in the circular-buffer example with load-acquire and store-release to reduce memory-barrier overhead while still keeping things safe. Thanx, Paul b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt | 2 - b/Documentation/circular-buffers.txt | 57 +++++++++++++++++++--------------- b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 ++--- 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)