Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:07:40 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] srcu: Isolate srcu sections using CONFIG_SRCU |
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 01:54:07PM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:46:22AM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote: > >> Isolate the SRCU functions and data structures within CONFIG_SRCU so that there > >> is a compile time failure if srcu is used when not enabled. This was decided to > >> be better than waiting until link time for a failure to occur. > > > > Why? > > This is part of the kernel tinification efforts. The first patch was > posted here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/4/848. This patch enables a > compile time failure instead of a link time failure.
can't be arsed to click. again, why does it matter when it fails, neither stages produces a working kernel so tinification cannot be the purpose.
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