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

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Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2014 21:10:10 -0400
From:	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
To:	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] rcu: Some minor fixes and cleanups

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@...ux.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 All my previous pending (but not rejected ;) patches are superseded by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
>>
>



-- 
Pranith
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