The patch titled PREEMPT_RCU has stricter needs: updated comment on SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is rcu-preemptible-rcu-fix.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: PREEMPT_RCU has stricter needs: updated comment on SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slab.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/slab.c~rcu-preemptible-rcu-fix mm/slab.c --- a/mm/slab.c~rcu-preemptible-rcu-fix +++ a/mm/slab.c @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ struct slab { * other kind of object (which our subsystem's lock might corrupt). * * rcu_read_lock before reading the address, then rcu_read_unlock after - * taking the spinlock within the structure expected at that address. + * releasing the spinlock within the structure expected at that address. * * We assume struct slab_rcu can overlay struct slab when destroying. */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch shmem-and-simple-const-super_operations.patch mm-more-rmap-checking.patch mm-make-read_cache_page-synchronous.patch fs-buffer-dont-pageuptodate-without-page-locked.patch take-anonymous-pages-off-the-lru-if-we-have-no-swap.patch add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated.patch smaps-extract-pmd-walker-from-smaps-code.patch smaps-add-pages-referenced-count-to-smaps.patch smaps-add-clear_refs-file-to-clear-reference.patch smaps-add-clear_refs-file-to-clear-reference-fix.patch ext2-reservations.patch ext2-balloc-fix-_with_rsv-freeze.patch ext2-balloc-reset-windowsz-when-full.patch ext2-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-rsv_end.patch ext2-balloc-fix-off-by-one-against-grp_goal.patch ext2-balloc-say-rb_entry-not-list_entry.patch ext2-balloc-use-io_error-label.patch add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-swap-prefetch.patch rcu-preemptible-rcu-fix.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html