linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tip tree with the block tree

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Message-ID: <20100622210607.GN2290@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:06:07 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tip tree with the block tree

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 02:31:21PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Today's linux-next merge of the tip tree got a conflict in
> fs/fs-writeback.c between commit 79338d2a78ab78efdc1698f1309766a039addf9d
> ("writeback: simplify the write back thread queue") from the block tree
> and commit b97181f24212f4c29197890ce1b2b9100bcc184d ("fs: remove all rcu
> head initializations, except on_stack initializations") from the tip tree.
> 
> This time it is not clear if the RCU updates are needed any more at all,
> so for today I just used the version of fs/fs-writeback.c from the block
> tree.

The current -next tree has gotten rid of all teh RCU_INIT_HEAD, RCU_HEAD,
and INIT_RCU_HEAD calls, as it should.  Woo-hoo!!!  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul
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