linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v2 0/6] Track RCU dereferences in RCU read-side critical sections

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Message-ID: <20160302140831.GX3577@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2016 06:08:31 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>, sasha.levin@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/6] Track RCU dereferences in RCU read-side critical
 sections

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 11:18:23AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 02:37:18PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > I come up with something you may not like ;-) , which is taking the
> > strings of the expressions, for example:
> 
> Heh, cute. Better than nothing I suppose.

It would be very good to get feedback from people using RCU heavily.
Some RCU read-side critical sections access a lot of fields, which
might make this sort of notation a bit of a maintainability issue.

							Thanx, Paul