linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC -tip 2/4] Renamings to increase RCU clarity

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Message-ID: <20090724152232.GB2419@Krystal>
Date:	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:22:32 -0400
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	josht@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, dvhltc@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC -tip 2/4] Renamings to increase RCU clarity

* Paul E. McKenney (paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> Make RCU-sched, RCU-bh, and RCU-preempt be underlying implementations,
> with "RCU" defined in terms of one of the three.  Update the outdated
> rcu_qsctr_inc() names, as these functions no longer increment anything.

Sounds good, as long as RCU-sched can still be accessed directly for
tracing purpose (which seems to be the case here).

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---

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