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* [PATCH kernel] rcu: Fix comment for rcu_dereference_raw_notrace
@ 2015-11-02  2:21 Alexey Kardashevskiy
  2015-11-02  3:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alexey Kardashevskiy @ 2015-11-02  2:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paul E. McKenney; +Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Steven Rostedt, linux-kernel

rcu_dereference_raw() calls indirectly rcu_read_lock_held() while
rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() does not so fix the comment about the latter.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 581abf8..931d627 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
  * The tracing infrastructure traces RCU (we want that), but unfortunately
  * some of the RCU checks causes tracing to lock up the system.
  *
- * The tracing version of rcu_dereference_raw() must not call
+ * The no-tracing version of rcu_dereference_raw() must not call
  * rcu_read_lock_held().
  */
 #define rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(p) __rcu_dereference_check((p), 1, __rcu)
-- 
2.5.0.rc3


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* Re: [PATCH kernel] rcu: Fix comment for rcu_dereference_raw_notrace
  2015-11-02  2:21 [PATCH kernel] rcu: Fix comment for rcu_dereference_raw_notrace Alexey Kardashevskiy
@ 2015-11-02  3:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Paul E. McKenney @ 2015-11-02  3:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alexey Kardashevskiy; +Cc: Steven Rostedt, linux-kernel

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 01:21:47PM +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> rcu_dereference_raw() calls indirectly rcu_read_lock_held() while
> rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() does not so fix the comment about the latter.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>

Good eyes!  Queued for 4.5, thank you!

							Thanx, Paul

> ---
>  include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 581abf8..931d627 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
>   * The tracing infrastructure traces RCU (we want that), but unfortunately
>   * some of the RCU checks causes tracing to lock up the system.
>   *
> - * The tracing version of rcu_dereference_raw() must not call
> + * The no-tracing version of rcu_dereference_raw() must not call
>   * rcu_read_lock_held().
>   */
>  #define rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(p) __rcu_dereference_check((p), 1, __rcu)
> -- 
> 2.5.0.rc3
> 


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