linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] rcu doc updates for whatisRCU and checklist

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Message-ID: <20181006021050.GC204532@joelaf.mtv.corp.google.com>
Date:   Fri, 5 Oct 2018 19:10:50 -0700
From:   Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, pantin@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] rcu doc updates for whatisRCU and checklist

On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 05:13:26PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > Here are this week's rcu doc updates based on combing through whatisRCU and
> > checklists. Hopefully you agree with them. I left several old _bh and _sched
> > API references as is, since I don't think its a good idea to remove them till
> > the APIs themselves are removed, however I did remove several of them as well
> > (like in the first patch in this series) since I feel its better to "encourage"
> > new users not to use the old API.
> > 
> > Also do you think it makes sense for us to write coccinelle patches to check if
> > folks use them on new patches? Btw, I am new to coccinelle but I'd love to give
> > it a try, it looks exciting. I remember you saying you wanted to do that, so
> > that's something else you could potentially offload to me as you see fit ;-)
> > 
> > Thank you very much!
> 
> Good catches, applied and pushed, thank you!
> 
> I updated the commit log and a couple of the patches a bit, so could
> you please double-check them?

Yes I checked and it looks good, thanks!

 - Joel