Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 May 2015 15:08:45 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/4] rcu: Eliminate array-index-based RCU primitives |
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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:18:42PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > Now that rcu_access_index() and rcu_dereference_index_check() are no > longer used, the commit removes them from the RCU API. This means that > RCU's data dependencies now involve only pointers, give or take the > occasional cast to and then back from an integer type to do pointer > arithmetic. This in turn eliminates the need for a number of operations > on values carrying RCU data dependencies. > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> > --- > include/linux/rcupdate.h | 50 ------------------------------------------------ > 1 file changed, 50 deletions(-)
Diffstats like this one are my favourite ones!
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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