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Message-ID: <20150513130845.GI1517@pd.tnic>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 15:08:45 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
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Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/4] rcu: Eliminate array-index-based RCU
primitives
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:18:42PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Now that rcu_access_index() and rcu_dereference_index_check() are no
> longer used, the commit removes them from the RCU API. This means that
> RCU's data dependencies now involve only pointers, give or take the
> occasional cast to and then back from an integer type to do pointer
> arithmetic. This in turn eliminates the need for a number of operations
> on values carrying RCU data dependencies.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: linux-edac@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> ---
> include/linux/rcupdate.h | 50 ------------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 50 deletions(-)
Diffstats like this one are my favourite ones!
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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