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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 10:05:01 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo.kernel.org@...il.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] sched/wait: Collapse __wait_event macros -v5
* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> And it now builds, boots, and passes short rcutorture tests, updated
> patch below.
>
> One side-effect is the boot parameters, namely that what used to be
> rcutree.blimit=10 is now simply tree.blimit=10. Not a problem for me, I
> just made my test scripts probe the source tree and generate the
> corresponding format. But is there some straightforward way to get the
> name of the "rcu" directory involved? The obvious approach of
> "rcu.tree.blimit=10" does not work -- the kernel happily ignores any
> such parameter.
Hm, that boot option parser attitude is a bit sad - more structure to boot
parameters is IMHO a Good Thing.
Does it accept :
rcu/tree/blimit=10
rcu/tree.blimit=10
type of structure perhaps?
>
> It looks like I should be able to do something like the following in
> kernel/rcu/tree.c to get back the old parameter names:
>
> MODULE_ALIAS("rcutree");
> #ifdef MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX
> #undef MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX
> #endif
> #define MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX "rcutree."
Yeah.
( To keep it simple, the undef should be unnecessary, it's not like anyone
can slip in a MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX without you noticing, right? )
> And similarly for rcu/update.c and rcu/torture.c.
>
> In fact, it looks like I could make rcu/update.c also use either the
> "rcutree." or "rcutiny." prefix, depending on which was being built.
>
> Any thoughts, cautions, or suggestions?
Still looks nice to me!
Thanks,
Ingo
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