From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264042AbUDGSGG (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:06:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264079AbUDGSGG (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:06:06 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:225 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264042AbUDGSGD (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:06:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16500.17103.665134.7465@neuro.alephnull.com> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:05:03 -0400 From: Rik Faith To: paulmck@us.ibm.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dipankar@in.ibm.com, rusty@au1.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Improve list.h documentation for _rcu() primitives In-Reply-To: [Paul E. McKenney ] Mon 5 Apr 2004 14:55:25 -0700 References: <20040405215524.GA2173@us.ibm.com> X-Key: 7EB57214; 958B 394D AD29 257E 553F E7C7 9F67 4BE0 7EB5 7214 X-Url: http://www.redhat.com/ X-Mailer: VM 7.17; XEmacs 21.4; Linux 2.4.22-1.2163.nptl (neuro) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon 5 Apr 2004 14:55:25 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > The attached patch improves the documentation of the _rcu list > primitives, as suggested off-list. > > Thanx, Paul Thanks for making these changes! I recently used the _rcu list primitives for the audit framework and I found that, even though I read the header file comments and the papers that were referenced, and even though I then had a good understanding of RCU, I missed some implementation details about how the primitives themselves should be used inside the Linux kernel. These new comments fill in those missing details -- I hope they are accepted into the kernel.