Re: [PATCH 1/3] RCU: Move some definitions to minimal headers.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Dec 29 2008 - 07:33:04 EST



* Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
> <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > linux/rcupdate.h used to include SLAB headers, which got in the way of
> > switching kmemtrace to use tracepoints instead of markers. The circular
> > header inclusion pattern that appeared was making it impossible to use
> > tracepoints in SLAB allocator inlines.
> >
> > This moves some header code into separate files. As an added bonus,
> > preprocessing is faster if care is taken to use these minimal headers,
> > since no effort is spent on including SLAB headers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'm okay with this but lets cc Paul for an ack/nak.

This should go via tip/core/rcu i suspect, which has pending RCU bits
(already sent to Linus, but not merged yet).

Ingo
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