linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] Additional RCU commits for 3.3

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:59:11 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca, josh@...htriplett.org,
	niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, darren@...art.com, patches@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] Additional RCU commits for 3.3


* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hello, Ingo,
> 
> Further -next and other testing uncovered one upcoming change and some
> build warnings.  The three commits below address these.  I am putting
> them forward for 3.3, but of course if the risk of change exceeds the
> magnitude of the problems, I can keep them queued for 3.4.  These are
> all quite small, have been exposed to -next testing, and I retested them
> against current tip/master.
> 
> The specific changes are as follows:
> 
> 1.	Change rcutorture's module parameters of type int to instead
> 	be bool.  This is in preparation for Rusty's patch that makes
> 	type-int module parameters illegal.  (Courtesy of Rusty Russell.)
> 
> 2.	Add "const" to the new is_idle_task()'s argument, which
> 	addresses a build warning located by Stephen Rothwell.
> 
> 3.	Add __cpuinit to rcu_torture_onoff() to address a section
> 	mismatch build warning.  (Courtesy of Heiko Carstens.)
> 
> These changes are based off of 3.2-rc7 and are available in the git
> repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git rcu/urgent
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> ------------------>
> 
> Heiko Carstens (1):
>       rcu: Add missing __cpuinit annotation in rcutorture code
> 
> Paul E. McKenney (1):
>       sched: Add "const" to is_idle_task() parameter
> 
> Rusty Russell (1):
>       rcu: Make rcutorture bool parameters really bool (core code)
> 
>  include/linux/sched.h |    2 +-
>  kernel/rcutorture.c   |    8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Pulled them into tip:core/urgent, thanks Paul!

Thanks,

	Ingo
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