Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling

2014-04-29 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:42:13AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote: > Minor nits below: > > Other than that Acked-by: Pranith Kumar > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Andev wrote: > > From: "Paul E. McKenney" > > > > Recent LKML discussings (see http://lwn.net/Articles/586838/ and > >

Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling

2014-04-29 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:42:13AM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote: Minor nits below: Other than that Acked-by: Pranith Kumar bobby.pr...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Andev debian...@gmail.com wrote: From: Paul E. McKenney paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Recent LKML discussings

Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling

2014-04-28 Thread Pranith Kumar
Minor nits below: Other than that Acked-by: Pranith Kumar On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Andev wrote: > From: "Paul E. McKenney" > > Recent LKML discussings (see http://lwn.net/Articles/586838/ and > http://lwn.net/Articles/588300/ for the LWN writeups) brought out > some ways of misusing

[PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling

2014-04-28 Thread Paul E. McKenney
From: "Paul E. McKenney" Recent LKML discussings (see http://lwn.net/Articles/586838/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/588300/ for the LWN writeups) brought out some ways of misusing the return value from rcu_dereference() that are not necessarily completely intuitive. This commit therefore

[PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling

2014-04-28 Thread Paul E. McKenney
From: Paul E. McKenney paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Recent LKML discussings (see http://lwn.net/Articles/586838/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/588300/ for the LWN writeups) brought out some ways of misusing the return value from rcu_dereference() that are not necessarily completely intuitive. This

Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/3] documentation: Record rcu_dereference() value mishandling

2014-04-28 Thread Pranith Kumar
Minor nits below: Other than that Acked-by: Pranith Kumar bobby.pr...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Andev debian...@gmail.com wrote: From: Paul E. McKenney paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Recent LKML discussings (see http://lwn.net/Articles/586838/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/588300/