From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753395AbbJFRfM (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2015 13:35:12 -0400 Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.196]:53272 "EHLO relay4-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752835AbbJFRfK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2015 13:35:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:35:05 -0700 From: Josh Triplett To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, 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: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation changes for 4.4 Message-ID: <20151006173505.GI9600@cloud> References: <20151006163358.GA14407@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151006163358.GA14407@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 09:33:58AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > 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. For all five: Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett