Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/4] rcu: Eliminate array-index-based RCU primitives

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:08:45PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:18:42PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Now that rcu_access_index() and rcu_dereference_index_check() are no
> > longer used, the commit removes them from the RCU API.  This means that
> > RCU's data dependencies now involve only pointers, give or take the
> > occasional cast to and then back from an integer type to do pointer
> > arithmetic.  This in turn eliminates the need for a number of operations
> > on values carrying RCU data dependencies.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/rcupdate.h | 50 ------------------------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 50 deletions(-)
> 
> Diffstats like this one are my favourite ones!

Me too!

> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

Applied, thank you!

								Thanx, Paul