linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/12] rcu: Remove rcu_swap

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Message-ID: <20191211035122.GC2889@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:51:22 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
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        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/12] rcu: Remove rcu_swap_protected()

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 10:35:49PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> 
> Paul,
> 
> > Now that the calls to rcu_swap_protected() have been replaced by
> > rcu_replace_pointer(), this commit removes rcu_swap_protected().
> 
> It appears there are two callers remaining in Linus' master. Otherwise
> looks good to me.

I did queue a fix for one of them, and thank you for calling my
attention to the new one.  This commit should hit -next soon, so
hopefully this will discourage further additions.  ;-)

> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>

Thank you!

							Thanx, Paul