From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
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"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>,
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Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>,
kernel-team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace to _check
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:50:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEXW_YS=Sb6k4_Z-fXdtERTHZDO_PHQCOhx6bhotWduCB7K28w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190711204541.28940-1-joel@joelfernandes.org>
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 4:45 PM Joel Fernandes (Google)
<joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:
>
> The rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() API name is confusing.
> It is equivalent to rcu_dereference_raw() except that it also does
> sparse pointer checking.
>
> There are only a few users of rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(). This
> patches renames all of them to be rcu_dereference_raw_check with the
> "check" indicating sparse checking.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
There also these _notrace things but I am Ok with leaving them alone for now:
hash_for_each_possible_rcu_notrace
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace
- Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-11 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-11 20:45 [PATCH] treewide: Rename rcu_dereference_raw_notrace to _check Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-07-11 20:50 ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2019-07-12 15:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-12 15:34 ` Joel Fernandes
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