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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
	dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	bobby.prani@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] Documentation updates for 4.2
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 14:22:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150512212234.GA32351@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)

Hello!

This series provides a few documentation updates:

1.	Fix description of smp_mb__before_spinlock() semantics, courtesy
	of Will Deacon.

2.	Add another caveat to the list regarding the care and feeding
	of pointers returned by rcu_derefence().  You cannot let the
	compiler know too much.

3.	Explicitly state that each instance of rcu_dereference() will
	reload the pointer, courtesy of Milos Vyletel.

							Thanx, Paul

------------------------------------------------------------------------

 b/Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt |    5 +++++
 b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt       |    4 +++-
 b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt     |    7 +++----
 b/include/linux/spinlock.h              |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-12 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-12 21:22 Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2015-05-12 21:23 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/3] documentation: memory-barriers: Fix smp_mb__before_spinlock() semantics Paul E. McKenney
2015-05-12 21:23   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] documentation: Update rcu_dereference.txt based on WG21 discussions Paul E. McKenney
2015-05-13 18:33     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-05-14 20:57       ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-05-12 21:23   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/3] documentation: State that rcu_dereference() reloads pointer Paul E. McKenney

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