From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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,
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Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/9] Documentation updates for 4.12
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:39:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170412163956.GA15691@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
Hello!
This series provides documentation updates:
1. Synchronous RCU grace periods are now legal throughout boot.
2. Add mid-boot operation to expedited grace periods.
3. Update stallwarn.txt to make causes more prominent.
4. Update RCU data-structure documentation for rcu_segcblist.
(Corresponding code changes are in the SRCU series.)
5. Update requirements based on recent changes.
6. doc: Update rcu_assign_pointer() definition in whatisRCU.txt.
7. Update the comparisons rule in rcu_dereference.txt, courtesy
of Michalis Kokologiannakis.
8. Emphasize that "toy" RCU requires recursive rwlock.
9. Update control-dependencies section of memory-barriers.txt,
courtesy of pierre Kuo.
Thanx, Paul
------------------------------------------------------------------------
RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.html | 207 ++++++----
RCU/Design/Data-Structures/nxtlist.svg | 34 -
RCU/Design/Expedited-Grace-Periods/Expedited-Grace-Periods.html | 47 ++
RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 201 ++++++---
RCU/rcu_dereference.txt | 9
RCU/stallwarn.txt | 190 ++++-----
RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 33 -
memory-barriers.txt | 2
8 files changed, 469 insertions(+), 254 deletions(-)
next reply other threads:[~2017-04-12 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-12 16:39 Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-04-12 16:40 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/9] doc: Synchronous RCU grace periods are now legal throughout boot Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-13 9:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-04-13 15:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 16:40 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/9] doc: Add mid-boot operation to expedited grace periods Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 16:40 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/9] doc: Update stallwarn.txt to make causes more prominent Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 16:40 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/9] doc: Update RCU data-structure documentation for rcu_segcblist Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 16:40 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/9] doc: Update requirements based on recent changes Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 16:40 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/9] doc: Update rcu_assign_pointer() definition in whatisRCU.txt Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 16:40 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 7/9] doc: Update the comparisons rule in rcu_dereference.txt Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 16:40 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 8/9] doc: Emphasize that "toy" RCU requires recursive rwlock Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-12 16:40 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 9/9] doc: Update control-dependencies section of memory-barriers.txt Paul E. McKenney
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