From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753134AbbJFQeK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:34:10 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:49205 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753054AbbJFQeE (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:34:04 -0400 X-IBM-Helo: d03dlp03.boulder.ibm.com X-IBM-MailFrom: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-IBM-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:33:58 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.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 0/5] Documentation changes for 4.4 Message-ID: <20151006163358.GA14407@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: 15100616-0013-0000-0000-0000191B9CCD Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! This series contains a few documentation updates: 1. Clearly state that RCU readers have no acquire/release semantics. 2. Call out slow consoles as a cause of stall warnings. 3. Update whatisRCU() to show rcu_dereference_protected(), courtesy of Jason A. Donenfeld. 4. Catch up list of torture_type options. 5. Add lockless_dereference() to memory-barriers.txt. Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 7 ++++++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | 39 ++++++++++++------------------------ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 6 ++--- b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 12 ++++++++++- 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)