linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 0/13] Miscellaneous fixes for 4.12

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2017 08:17:24 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
        oleg@...hat.com, bobby.prani@...il.com, marc.zyngier@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 0/13] Miscellaneous fixes for 4.12

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 05:03:09PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 07:58:44AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > 
> > Still something to hesitate a bit before using, but not something
> > checkpatch should warn about.
> 
> How else will you get people to hesitate?

The fact that checkpatch has been warning about it for quite some time
should suffice for the near future.  Longer term, there is no more reason
to complain about synchronize_rcu_expedited() than there is to complain
about smp_call_function().

							Thanx, Paul