Re: [RFC v2 0/6] Track RCU dereferences in RCU read-side critical sections

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Mar 02 2016 - 09:08:41 EST


On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 11:18:23AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 02:37:18PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > I come up with something you may not like ;-) , which is taking the
> > strings of the expressions, for example:
>
> Heh, cute. Better than nothing I suppose.

It would be very good to get feedback from people using RCU heavily.
Some RCU read-side critical sections access a lot of fields, which
might make this sort of notation a bit of a maintainability issue.

Thanx, Paul