On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 09:13:05AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello! > > This series contains miscellaneous fixes: > > 1. Export sched_setscheduler_nocheck() so that the new locktorture > rtmutex_lock tests can be run as modules, courtesy of Davidlohr > Bueso. > > 2. Use rcu_callback_t in call_rcu*() and friends to improve > readability and to make cscope able to find them, courtesy of > Boqun Feng. > > 3. Use call_rcu_func_t to replace explicit type equivalents when > defining RCU callback functions, courtesy of Boqun Feng. > > 4. Don't unnecessarily disable preemption for Tiny and Tree > RCU readers (only for preemptible RCU readers), courtesy > of Boqun Feng. > > 5. Eliminate boot-time panic when a silly boot-time fanout is > specified. > > 6. Add online/offline info to help debug stall-warning messages. > > 7. Move preemption disabling out of __srcu_read_lock() into > srcu_read_lock(). > > 8. Finish folding ->fqs_state into ->gp_state, courtesy of Petr Mladek. > > 9. Correct comment for values of ->gp_state field. > > 10. Add rcu_pointer_handoff() to allow explicit marking of handing > off protection from RCU to some other means, such as locking > or reference counting. > > 11. Make list_entry_rcu() use lockless_dereference(), courtesy > of Patrick Marlier. Despite the fact that this patch > does nothing more than eliminate a single store and a > single load of an unshared stack variable it nevertheless > manages to provide a measurable performance increase: > http://people.csail.mit.edu/amatveev/RLU_SOSP2015.pdf > > 12. Remove deprecated rcu_lockdep_assert().
(And a patch 13 not mentioned here.) I responded to patches 4, 6, and 10 with feedback; for the rest (and for those with the issues addressed): Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
