[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/7] Yet more RCU commits queued for 2.6.37

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri Aug 20 2010 - 14:45:30 EST


Hello!

This patchset shows additional patches queued for 2.6.37, over
and above those posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/7/14/334 and
at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/9/332. These are all trivial fixes.
The patches are as follows:

1. Allow kernel debuggers to avoid spurious RCU CPU stall warnings
when restarting from a breakpoint via a new rcu_cpu_stall_reset().
2. Repair code-duplication FIXMEs. This code was temporarily
duplicated to avoid inter-patch dependencies in the RCU tree.
3. Document some additional ways of stalling updates to prevent
call_rcu()-induced OOM situations.
4. Update srcu_read_lock() docbook comment to note that it is
illegal to wait for a given flavor of SRCU grace period while
in that same flavor of SRCU read-side critical section.
5. Combine duplicate code, courtesy of a newly refurbished
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU symbol. Also convert from macro to
static inline function in a couple of places.
6. Apply the TINY_PREEMPT_RCU read-side speedups/fixes to
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. This update to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU update was
posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/17/437.
7. Add a comment stating that list_empty() serves the function of
the non-existent list_empty_rcu().

For a testing-only version of this patchset from git, please see:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu.git rcu/testing

Thanx, Paul

b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | 23 ++++++++---
b/include/linux/rculist.h | 9 ++++
b/include/linux/rcupdate.h | 15 +++++++
b/include/linux/rcutiny.h | 4 ++
b/include/linux/rcutree.h | 1
b/include/linux/srcu.h | 7 +++
b/kernel/rcutiny_plugin.h | 4 --
b/kernel/rcutree.c | 20 ++++++++++
b/kernel/rcutree.h | 1
b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 18 +++++++++
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/rcutiny.h | 58 -----------------------------
include/linux/rcutree.h | 56 ----------------------------
kernel/rcutree.h | 3 -
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 15 ++-----
15 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 143 deletions(-)
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