linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] rcu: finalize debugobjects, first round of RCU sparse pointer checks

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Date:	Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:52:54 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	tglx@...utronix.de, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org, sparse@...isli.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] rcu: finalize debugobjects, first round of RCU
 sparse pointer checks

On Wed,  2 Jun 2010 19:34:41 +0900 (JST) KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > Hello, Ingo,
> > 
> > Here are the final commits from Mathieu's debugobjects series and the
> > first few from Arnd's RCU-pointer sparse series.  The first three remove
> > RCU's (useless) initializations from mm, fs, and powerpc:
> > 
> > mm:	http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/18/562
> > fs:	http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/18/500
> > powerpc:http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg43510.html
> > 
> > Kosaki Motohiro agreed that the mm patch should go up -tip, and none of
> > the other maintainers objected to the prospect of their patches going
> > up -tip.
> 
> Andrew, can we hear your opinion? I think this patch series have some
> dependencies, then -tip is best place. If any code confliction occur,
> I promise I'll solve it soon.
> 

A wee little two-line patch?  Go wild!
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