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To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/6] Track RCU dereferences in RCU read-side critical
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On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 11:18:23AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 02:37:18PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > I come up with something you may not like ;-) , which is taking the
> > strings of the expressions, for example:
> 
> Heh, cute. Better than nothing I suppose.

It would be very good to get feedback from people using RCU heavily.
Some RCU read-side critical sections access a lot of fields, which
might make this sort of notation a bit of a maintainability issue.

							Thanx, Paul