linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] RCU: Move some definitions to minimal headers.

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Message-ID: <20081229123233.GA16364@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:32:33 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] RCU: Move some definitions to minimal headers.


* Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
> <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro> wrote:
> > linux/rcupdate.h used to include SLAB headers, which got in the way of
> > switching kmemtrace to use tracepoints instead of markers. The circular
> > header inclusion pattern that appeared was making it impossible to use
> > tracepoints in SLAB allocator inlines.
> >
> > This moves some header code into separate files. As an added bonus,
> > preprocessing is faster if care is taken to use these minimal headers,
> > since no effort is spent on including SLAB headers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>
> 
> I'm okay with this but lets cc Paul for an ack/nak.

This should go via tip/core/rcu i suspect, which has pending RCU bits 
(already sent to Linus, but not merged yet).

	Ingo
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