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From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	kernel-team <kernel-team@android.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, rcu <rcu@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Glexiner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vpillai@digitalocean.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] RCU dyntick nesting counter cleanups for rcu -dev
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 13:37:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEXW_YQNm9QMzLNay8TMnXoUsJgVhxOFEdvT3aLDLE+0zx2Mng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200504171532.GR2869@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 1:15 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 08:05:00AM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> > These patches clean up the usage of dynticks nesting counters simplifying the
> > code, while preserving the usecases.
> >
> > It is a much needed simplification, makes the code less confusing, and prevents
> > future bugs such as those that arise from forgetting that the
> > dynticks_nmi_nesting counter is not a simple counter and can be "crowbarred" in
> > common situations.
> >
> > rcutorture testing with all TREE RCU configurations succeed with
> > CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG=y and CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.
> >
> > v1->v2:
> > - Rebase on v5.6-rc6
> >
> > v2->v3:
> > - Rebase on rcu/dev with adjustments for tasks-RCU.
>
> Thank you!
>
> But this does not apply to any of v5.6-rc6, v5.7-rc1, or v5.7-rc2.
>
> Where should I be trying to apply it?
>

Hi Paul,
It is for the rcu/dev branch as mentioned in the cover letter subject
line. I thought it would reduce conflicts for you if I rebased on
that. There are conflicts with trace-RCU for example.

What do you suggest?

Thanks,

 - Joel

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-04 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-04 12:05 [PATCH v3 0/5] RCU dyntick nesting counter cleanups for rcu -dev Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-05-04 12:05 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] Revert b8c17e6664c4 ("rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of ->dynticks counter") Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-05-04 12:05 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] rcu/tree: Add better tracing for dyntick-idle Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-05-04 12:05 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] rcu/tree: Clean up dynticks counter usage Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-05-04 12:05 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] rcu/tree: Remove dynticks_nmi_nesting counter Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-05-04 12:05 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] trace: events: rcu: Change description of rcu_dyntick trace event Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-05-04 17:15 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] RCU dyntick nesting counter cleanups for rcu -dev Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 17:37   ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2020-05-04 17:44   ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-04 18:18     ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-16 17:12     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-17 10:26       ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-05-17 16:15         ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-17 19:06           ` Thomas Gleixner

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