linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/52] Remove rcu

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Date:   Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:40:12 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 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,
        dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
        oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/52] Remove rcu_state pointers for
 v4.20/v5.0

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:10:06 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:


> > I would just keep the documentation patches separate.  
> 
> Combining yours and Josh's feedback, I will split the documentation
> updates out of 4ca0508f7870 ("rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_node tree
> accessor macros") and put them into the "doc" series.  Possibly combining
> it with 2ea66b6fce61 ("doc: Update documentation for removal of RCU-bh
> update machinery") and/or 3f38a4626202 ("doc: Update documentation for
> removal of RCU-sched update machinery").  Left to myself, I would merge
> it in to the merger of those two documentation commits.  Having them
> together is probably more convenient anyway, as it would provide a
> summary of the entire RCU-flavor-consolidation change.
> 
> Fair enough?
>

Go for it ;-)

-- Steve