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Message-ID: <1294138884.2016.106.camel@laptop>
Date:	Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:01:24 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: add __rcu annotation

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 11:55 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 04 janvier 2011 à 11:17 +0100, Peter Zijlstra a écrit :
> 
> > I'm really starting to detest sparse (lock annotations), it keeps adding
> > these annotations, but does it ever catch an actual bug?
> 
> Actually I caught at least one bug in networking (FIB code ?) thanks to
> these __rcu annotations ;)
> 
> Cannot remember the exact bug, sorry ;)

Ah, ok.. then they're not completely pointless. Lai, can you resend with
a slightly better changelog?
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