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Message-ID: <2e218986-1dd1-42d8-94dc-cce098533af0@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 04:53:05 +0700
From:   Phong Tran <tranmanphong@...il.com>
To:     Amol Grover <frextrite@...il.com>, paulmck@...nel.org
Cc:     tranmanphong@...il.com, josh@...htriplett.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, jiangshanlai@...il.com,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, corbet@....net,
        madhuparnabhowmik04@...il.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] Doc: Improve format for
 whatisRCU.rst



On 11/5/19 11:59 PM, Amol Grover wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 06:55:17PM +0700, Phong Tran wrote:
>> Adding crossreference target for some headers, answer of quizzes
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@...il.com>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>>   1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
>> index 70d0e4c21917..ae40c8bcc56c 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst
>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> -.. _rcu_doc:
>> +.. _whatisrcu_doc:
>>   
>>   What is RCU?  --  "Read, Copy, Update"
>>   ======================================
>> @@ -27,14 +27,21 @@ the experience has been that different people must take different paths
>>   to arrive at an understanding of RCU.  This document provides several
>>   different paths, as follows:
>>   
>> -1.	RCU OVERVIEW
>> -2.	WHAT IS RCU'S CORE API?
>> -3.	WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLE USES OF CORE RCU API?
>> -4.	WHAT IF MY UPDATING THREAD CANNOT BLOCK?
>> -5.	WHAT ARE SOME SIMPLE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF RCU?
>> -6.	ANALOGY WITH READER-WRITER LOCKING
>> -7.	FULL LIST OF RCU APIs
>> -8.	ANSWERS TO QUICK QUIZZES
>> +:ref:`1.	RCU OVERVIEW <1_whatisRCU>`
>> +
>> +:ref:`2.	WHAT IS RCU'S CORE API? <2_whatisRCU>`
>> +
>> +:ref:`3.	WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLE USES OF CORE RCU API? <3_whatisRCU>`
>> +
>> +:ref:`4.	WHAT IF MY UPDATING THREAD CANNOT BLOCK? <4_whatisRCU>`
>> +
>> +:ref:`5.	WHAT ARE SOME SIMPLE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF RCU? <5_whatisRCU>`
>> +
>> +:ref:`6.	ANALOGY WITH READER-WRITER LOCKING <6_whatisRCU>`
>> +
>> +:ref:`7.	FULL LIST OF RCU APIs <7_whatisRCU>`
>> +
>> +:ref:`8.	ANSWERS TO QUICK QUIZZES <8_whatisRCU>`
>>   
>>   People who prefer starting with a conceptual overview should focus on
>>   Section 1, though most readers will profit by reading this section at
>> @@ -52,6 +59,7 @@ everything, feel free to read the whole thing -- but if you are really
>>   that type of person, you have perused the source code and will therefore
>>   never need this document anyway.  ;-)
>>   
>> +.. _1_whatisRCU:
>>   
>>   1.  RCU OVERVIEW
>>   ----------------
>> @@ -120,6 +128,7 @@ So how the heck can a reclaimer tell when a reader is done, given
>>   that readers are not doing any sort of synchronization operations???
>>   Read on to learn about how RCU's API makes this easy.
>>   
>> +.. _2_whatisRCU:
>>   
>>   2.  WHAT IS RCU'S CORE API?
>>   ---------------------------
>> @@ -381,13 +390,15 @@ c.	RCU applied to scheduler and interrupt/NMI-handler tasks.
>>   Again, most uses will be of (a).  The (b) and (c) cases are important
>>   for specialized uses, but are relatively uncommon.
> 
> Hey,
> 
> The changes looks good overall, however a few areas would
> look even better after a bit of formatting.
> 
> The API methods text under this section could be converted
> to sub-headings (^^^) for improved readability.
> 
> rcu_dereference() sub-section under `Section 2` has 2
> footnotes which could be linked using
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#footnotes
> 

Okay, sent out the patch with the suggestions.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/5/996

Regards,
Phong.