linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] Additional RCU commit for 4.3

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Message-ID: <20150825074631.GA25158@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:46:31 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, will.deacon@....com,
	peterz@...radead.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL rcu/next] Additional RCU commit for 4.3


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

> Hello, Ingo,
> 
> This additional series contains a single change:
> 
> 1.	Privatize smp_mb__after_unlock_lock().  This commit moves the
> 	definition of smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() to kernel/rcu/tree.h,
> 	in recognition of the fact that RCU is the only thing using
> 	this, that nothing else is likely to use it, and that it is
> 	likely to go away completely.
> 
> This change has been subjected to 0day Test Robot and -next testing,
> and is available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git for-mingo
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 12d560f4ea87030667438a169912380be00cea4b:
> 
>   rcu,locking: Privatize smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() (2015-08-04 08:49:21 -0700)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Paul E. McKenney (1):
>       rcu,locking: Privatize smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()
> 
>  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt   | 71 +++----------------------------------
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h |  2 --
>  include/linux/spinlock.h            | 10 ------
>  kernel/rcu/tree.h                   | 12 +++++++
>  4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks a lot Paul!

	Ingo
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