linux-kernel - Re: [Cleanup PATCH] rcu: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when calling rcu_dereference

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Message-ID: <20110708204632.GZ6014@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 8 Jul 2011 13:46:32 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Cleanup PATCH] rcu: Do not use rcu_read_lock_held when
 calling rcu_dereference_check

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:22:45PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > > Hmm, thinking about it some more. Wouldn't it make more sense to push
> > > this through trivial tree (CCing Jikos)? Having 5 or so patches with the
> > > exactly same changelog sounds overkill to me.
> > > 
> > > What do you think? Could you give me your Acked-by if you are OK with
> > > it, please?
> > 
> > Whatever works.  ;-)
> > 
> > However, I did queue the Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt patch already.
> 
> That's no problem for git. But anyway, I have dropped that part.
> 
> > For the others,
> > 
> > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Thanks. Applied.

Thank you, Jiri!

							Thanx, Paul
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