linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] RCU: Add TASK_RCU

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Message-ID: <4D931814.9090100@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:46:28 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] RCU: Add TASK_RCU_OFFSET

On 30.3.2011 12:57, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 12:55 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH] headers: Allow for lightweight inclusion of task_struct definition
>>
>> Factor out a couple of type definitions to <header>_types.h to allow
>> using task_struct without pulling tons of new dependencies via sched.h.
> 
> Urgh, not pretty.. so why not clean up sched.h properly? There's way too
> much cruft in there.

It was a proof-of-concept to show that it is doable to have proper
definition of task_struct in rcupdate.h. Not an entry for any code
beauty contest.

Michal
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