linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v0.1 0/9] UMCG early preview/RFC patchset

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Date:   Fri, 21 May 2021 09:03:07 -0700
From:   Peter Oskolkov <posk@...gle.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-api <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
        Peter Oskolkov <posk@...k.io>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...gle.com>,
        Jim Newsome <jnewsome@...project.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v0.1 0/9] UMCG early preview/RFC patchset

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 8:08 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:

[...]
> Documentation patches can help to guide that discussion; they also need
> to be reviewed as well.  So yes, I think they should be present from the
> beginning.  But then, that's the position I'm supposed to take :)  This
> is a big change to the kernel's system-call API, I don't think that
> there can be a proper discussion of that without a description of what
> you're trying to do.

Hi Jon,

There are doc comments in patches 2 and 7 in umcg.c documenting the
new syscalls. That said, I'll prepare a separate doc patch - I guess
I'll add Documentation/scheduler/umcg.rst, unless you tell me there is
a better place to do that. ETA mid-to-late next week.

Thanks,
Peter