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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
	sbw@mit.edu, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/23] rcu: Prevent initialization-time quiescent-state race
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 09:18:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120906161815.GE2448@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346941290.18408.17.camel@twins>

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 04:21:30PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 11:19 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > I tried that, and got a surprisingly large set of conflicts.  Ah, OK,
> > the problem is that breaking up rcu_gp_kthread() into subfunctions
> > did enough code motion to defeat straightforward rebasing.  Is there
> > some way to tell "git rebase" about such code motion, or would this
> > need to be carried out carefully by hand? 
> 
> The alternative is doing that rebase by hand and in the process make
> that code movement patch (6) obsolete by making patches (1) and (3)
> introduce the code in the final form :-)
> 
> Yay for less patches :-)

Actually, my original intent was that patches 1-6 be one patch.
The need to locate a nasty bug caused me to split it up.  So the best
approach is to squash patches 1-6 together with the related patches.

							Thanx, paul


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-06 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-30 18:18 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/23] Improvements to RT response on big systems and expedited functions Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/23] rcu: Move RCU grace-period initialization into a kthread Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/23] rcu: Allow RCU grace-period initialization to be preempted Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  1:09     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-05  1:22       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/23] rcu: Move RCU grace-period cleanup into kthread Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  1:22     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 13:34     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 17:29       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/23] rcu: Allow RCU grace-period cleanup to be preempted Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  1:36     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/23] rcu: Prevent offline CPUs from executing RCU core code Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  1:45     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/23] rcu: Break up rcu_gp_kthread() into subfunctions Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  2:11     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 13:39     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 17:32       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 18:49         ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 19:09           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 20:30             ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 20:30           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/23] rcu: Provide OOM handler to motivate lazy RCU callbacks Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  2:13     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-03  9:08     ` Lai Jiangshan
2012-09-05 17:45       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 13:46     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 13:52       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-09-06 17:41         ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 17:46           ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 20:32             ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/23] rcu: Segregate rcu_state fields to improve cache locality Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  2:51     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/23] rcu: Move quiescent-state forcing into kthread Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/23] rcu: Allow RCU quiescent-state forcing to be preempted Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  5:23     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/23] rcu: Adjust debugfs tracing for kthread-based quiescent-state forcing Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  6:05     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/23] rcu: Prevent force_quiescent_state() memory contention Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02 10:47     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/23] rcu: Control grace-period duration from sysfs Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:30     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-03  9:31       ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:15     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 17:53       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 18:28         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 20:37           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/23] rcu: Remove now-unused rcu_state fields Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:31     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:17     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 18:02       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/23] rcu: Make rcutree module parameters visible in sysfs Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:32     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/23] rcu: Prevent initialization-time quiescent-state race Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:37     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-05 18:19       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-05 18:55         ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-05 19:49           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 14:21         ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 16:18           ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-09-06 16:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 17/23] rcu: Fix day-zero grace-period initialization/cleanup race Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:39     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:24     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 18:06       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 18/23] rcu: Add random PROVE_RCU_DELAY to grace-period initialization Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:41     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:27     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 18:25       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 19/23] rcu: Adjust for unconditional ->completed assignment Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:42     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 20/23] rcu: Remove callback acceleration from grace-period initialization Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:42     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 21/23] rcu: Eliminate signed overflow in synchronize_rcu_expedited() Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:43     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 22/23] rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu_expedited() latency Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:46     ` Josh Triplett
2012-08-30 18:18   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 23/23] rcu: Simplify quiescent-state detection Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-03  9:56     ` Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 14:36     ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 20:01       ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-06 21:18         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2012-09-06 21:31           ` Paul E. McKenney
2012-09-02  1:04   ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/23] rcu: Move RCU grace-period initialization into a kthread Josh Triplett
2012-09-06 13:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-09-06 17:00     ` Paul E. McKenney

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