Re: [PATCH -rcu/dev] Please squash: fixup! rcu/tree: Add basic support for kfree_rcu() batching
From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sat Aug 17 2019 - 17:42:47 EST
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 12:43:08AM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 09:38:54PM -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 Aug 2019, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> >
> > > xchg() on a bool is causing issues on riscv and arm32.
> >
> > Indeed, it seems best not to use xchg() on any type that's not 32 bits
> > long or that's not the CPU's native word size. Probably we should update
> > the documentation.
>
> I would endorse any such documentation effort ;-)
>
> > > Please squash this into the -rcu dev branch to resolve the issue.
> > >
> > > Please squash this fix.
Done, please see below for updated version.
> > > Fixes: -rcu dev commit 3cbd3aa7d9c7bdf ("rcu/tree: Add basic support for kfree_rcu() batching")
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1908161931110.32497@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#me9956f66cb611b95d26ae92700e1d901f46e8c59
> > Reviewed-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx>
I added the link, thank you Paul! If you meant the Reviewed-by to apply
to the entire kfree_rcu() patch, I will of course be very happy to apply
that as well.
> Thanks Paul! And nice to meet you again after many years ;-) Glad to see you
> working on riscv.
What Joel said! ;-)
Thanx, Paul