Re: [PATCH 00/16] rcu: Some minor fixes and cleanups

Pranith Kumar
2014-08-27T01:10:43Z

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:09:37AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> This is a series of minor fixes and cleanup patches which I found while studying
>> the code. All my previous pending (but not rejected ;) patches are superseded by
>> this series, expect the rcutorture snprintf changes. I am still waiting for you
>> to decide on that one :)
>>
>> These changes have been tested by the kvm rcutorture test setup. Some tests give
>> me stall warnings, but otherwise have SUCCESS messages in the logs.
>
> For patches 1, 3, 5, 8, 12, and 13, once you get a Reviewed-by from one
> of the co-maintainers or designated reviewers, I will queue them.
> The other patches I have responded to.
>

Hi Paul, just a reminder so that these don't get forgotten :)

>>
>> Pranith Kumar (16):
>> rcu: Use rcu_num_nodes instead of NUM_RCU_NODES
>> rcu: Check return value for cpumask allocation
>> rcu: Fix comment for gp_state field values
>> rcu: Remove redundant check for an online CPU
>> rcu: Add noreturn attribute to boost kthread
>> rcu: Clear gp_flags only when actually starting new gp
>> rcu: Save and restore irq flags in rcu_gp_cleanup()
>> rcu: Clean up rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread()
>> rcu: Remove redundant check for online cpu
>> rcu: Check for RCU_FLAG_GP_INIT bit in gp_flags for spurious wakeup
>> rcu: Check for spurious wakeup using return value
>> rcu: Rename rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() to rcu_spawn_kthreads()
>> rcu: Spawn nocb kthreads from rcu_prepare_kthreads()
>> rcu: Remove redundant checks for rcu_scheduler_fully_active
>> rcu: Check for a nocb cpu before trying to spawn nocb threads
>> rcu: kvm.sh: Fix error when you pass --cpus argument
>>
>> kernel/rcu/tree.c | 42 ++++++++++++++-------------
>> kernel/rcu/tree.h | 4 +--
>> kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 40 +++++++++++++------------
>> tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh | 4 +--
>> 4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.0.0.rc2
>>
>

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Pranith