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Message-ID: <20151006163358.GA14407@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:33:58 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, bobby.prani@...il.com Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation changes for 4.4 Hello! This series contains a few documentation updates: 1. Clearly state that RCU readers have no acquire/release semantics. 2. Call out slow consoles as a cause of stall warnings. 3. Update whatisRCU() to show rcu_dereference_protected(), courtesy of Jason A. Donenfeld. 4. Catch up list of torture_type options. 5. Add lockless_dereference() to memory-barriers.txt. Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt | 7 ++++++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt | 39 ++++++++++++------------------------ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 6 ++--- b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 12 ++++++++++- 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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