From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932812AbcAKMyO (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:54:14 -0500 Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:48102 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758300AbcAKMyN (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:54:13 -0500 X-IBM-Helo: d03dlp03.boulder.ibm.com X-IBM-MailFrom: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-IBM-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:54:23 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] RCU changes for v4.5 Message-ID: <20160111125423.GQ3818@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20160111123518.GA13930@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160111123518.GA13930@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 16011112-0029-0000-0000-00000F85270E Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:35:18PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Linus, > > Please pull the latest core-rcu-for-linus git tree from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git core-rcu-for-linus > > # HEAD: 3104fb3dd45bb47ff1382d1c079c251710ddcae3 Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu > > The changes in this cycle were: > > - Adding transitivity uniformly to rcu_node structure ->lock > acquisitions. (This is implemented by the first two commits > on top of v4.4-rc2 due to the pervasive nature of this change.) > > - Documentation updates, including RCU requirements. > > - Expedited grace-period changes. > > - Miscellaneous fixes. > > - Linked-list fixes, courtesy of KTSAN. > > - Torture-test updates. > > - Late-breaking fix to sysrq-generated crash. > > One thing I should note is that these pieces of documentation are fairly large > files: > > .../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 2897 ++++++++++++++++++++ > .../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx | 2741 ++++++++++++++++++ > > and are written in HTML, not the usual .txt style. I hope they are fine. For whatever it is worth, the reason for this unconventional choice was that attempts to do the diagrams in ASCII art failed miserably. And attempts to do ASCII art for the upcoming documentation of the data structures failed even more miserably. Thanx, Paul