Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] RCU: Add TASK_RCU_OFFSET

From: Lai Jiangshan
Date: Wed Mar 30 2011 - 21:00:24 EST


On 03/30/2011 07:46 PM, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 30.3.2011 12:57, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 12:55 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
>>> Subject: [PATCH] headers: Allow for lightweight inclusion of task_struct definition
>>>
>>> Factor out a couple of type definitions to <header>_types.h to allow
>>> using task_struct without pulling tons of new dependencies via sched.h.
>>
>> Urgh, not pretty.. so why not clean up sched.h properly? There's way too
>> much cruft in there.
>
> It was a proof-of-concept to show that it is doable to have proper
> definition of task_struct in rcupdate.h. Not an entry for any code
> beauty contest.
>
> Michal
>

I like this cleanup, could you continue for this hard job? I will help you if required.

Ingo & Peter - will you accept the patches when it is done.

Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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