On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 01:26:25PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello! > > This series provides a variety of documentation updates: > > 1. Update the documentation on actions to take to avoid frenetic > call_rcu() invocations from exhausting memory, including a mention > of internal-to-RCU avoidance measures. > > 2. Add a note to Documentation/memory-barriers.txt stating that > ACCESS_ONCE() provides cache coherence for accesses to any > single given variable. > > 3. Add an explicit statement that in control dependencies, the > condition must include the load in question. > > 4. Add WQ_SYSFS workqueues as a work-offloading option in > Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt. > > 5. It turns out that some types of control dependencies require > memory barriers, most notably when the exact same store is > at the beginning of both the then-clause and the else-clause. > Document this. > > 6. Fixups to RTFP.txt
I've replied to 1, 2, and 5 with comments. For 3, 4, and 6: Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
