netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] rcu: Add support for consolidated-RCU reader checking

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:50:01 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/9] rcu: Add support for consolidated-RCU reader
 checking

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 02:35:17PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:22:37AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 01:00:17PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> > > This patch adds support for checking RCU reader sections in list
> > > traversal macros. Optionally, if the list macro is called under SRCU or
> > > other lock/mutex protection, then appropriate lockdep expressions can be
> > > passed to make the checks pass.
> > > 
> > > Existing list_for_each_entry_rcu() invocations don't need to pass the
> > > optional fourth argument (cond) unless they are under some non-RCU
> > > protection and needs to make lockdep check pass.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
> > 
> > If you fold in the checks for extra parameters, I will take this
> > one and also 1/9.
> 
> I folded the checks in and also threw in the rcu-sync with Oleg's ack:
> 
> Could you pull into /dev branch?
> 
> git pull https://github.com/joelagnel/linux-kernel.git list-first-three
> (Based on your dev branch)

Given that I am going to have to rebase these a few times, please
email a v4.

							Thanx, Paul