Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/23] rcu: Remove now-unused rcu_statefields

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 11:18 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Moving the RCU grace-period processing to a kthread and adjusting the
> tracing resulted in two of the rcu_state structure's fields being unused.
> This commit therefore removes them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/rcutree.h |    7 -------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
> index 2d4cc18..8f0293c 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcutree.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
> @@ -378,13 +378,6 @@ struct rcu_state {
>  
>  	u8	fqs_state ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
>  						/* Force QS state. */
> -	u8	fqs_active;			/* force_quiescent_state() */
> -						/*  is running. */
> -	u8	fqs_need_gp;			/* A CPU was prevented from */
> -						/*  starting a new grace */
> -						/*  period because */
> -						/*  force_quiescent_state() */
> -						/*  was running. */
>  	u8	boost;				/* Subject to priority boost. */
>  	unsigned long gpnum;			/* Current gp number. */
>  	unsigned long completed;		/* # of last completed gp. */

Typically one would fold this change into the patch that caused said
redundancy and not mention it. Save a patch to (post/review/merge) and
makes the patches a more solid whole.

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