Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/23] rcu: Prevent initialization-timequiescent-state race

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Sep 06 2012 - 10:22:28 EST


On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 11:19 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> I tried that, and got a surprisingly large set of conflicts. Ah, OK,
> the problem is that breaking up rcu_gp_kthread() into subfunctions
> did enough code motion to defeat straightforward rebasing. Is there
> some way to tell "git rebase" about such code motion, or would this
> need to be carried out carefully by hand?

The alternative is doing that rebase by hand and in the process make
that code movement patch (6) obsolete by making patches (1) and (3)
introduce the code in the final form :-)

Yay for less patches :-)
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