On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Here are this week's rcu doc updates based on combing through whatisRCU and > checklists. Hopefully you agree with them. I left several old _bh and _sched > API references as is, since I don't think its a good idea to remove them till > the APIs themselves are removed, however I did remove several of them as well > (like in the first patch in this series) since I feel its better to "encourage" > new users not to use the old API. > > Also do you think it makes sense for us to write coccinelle patches to check if > folks use them on new patches? Btw, I am new to coccinelle but I'd love to give > it a try, it looks exciting. I remember you saying you wanted to do that, so > that's something else you could potentially offload to me as you see fit ;-) > > Thank you very much! Good catches, applied and pushed, thank you! I updated the commit log and a couple of the patches a bit, so could you please double-check them? Thanx, Paul > Joel Fernandes (Google) (5): > doc: rcu: Update core and full API in whatisRCU > doc: rcu: Add more rationale for using rcu_read_lock_sched in > checklist > doc: rcu: Remove obsolete suggestion from checklist > doc: rcu: Remove obsolete checklist item about synchronize_rcu usage > doc: rcu: Encourage use of rcu_barrier in checklist > > Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | 49 +++++++---------------------- > Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 55 +++++++++++++++++---------------- > 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog >
