Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 06/11] staging: remove all rcu headinitializations

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri May 14 2010 - 16:30:50 EST


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 05:08:21PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:45:23PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:33:01PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing
> > > it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can
> > > keep track of objects on stack.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/staging/batman-adv/hard-interface.c | 1 -
> >
> > Is this safe to apply to my tree now? Or do you want to take it through
> > your tree as it depends on other stuff?
>
> Because the rcu_head in this case is not in an auto (on-stack) variable,
> this commit is safe to apply to your tree now.
>
> Let me know when you have applied it, and I will happily remove it
> from mine. ;-)

Now queued up.

thanks,

greg k-h
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