Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] Additional RCU commits for 3.3

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 10 2012 - 03:59:53 EST



* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, Ingo,
>
> Further -next and other testing uncovered one upcoming change and some
> build warnings. The three commits below address these. I am putting
> them forward for 3.3, but of course if the risk of change exceeds the
> magnitude of the problems, I can keep them queued for 3.4. These are
> all quite small, have been exposed to -next testing, and I retested them
> against current tip/master.
>
> The specific changes are as follows:
>
> 1. Change rcutorture's module parameters of type int to instead
> be bool. This is in preparation for Rusty's patch that makes
> type-int module parameters illegal. (Courtesy of Rusty Russell.)
>
> 2. Add "const" to the new is_idle_task()'s argument, which
> addresses a build warning located by Stephen Rothwell.
>
> 3. Add __cpuinit to rcu_torture_onoff() to address a section
> mismatch build warning. (Courtesy of Heiko Carstens.)
>
> These changes are based off of 3.2-rc7 and are available in the git
> repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git rcu/urgent
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------>
>
> Heiko Carstens (1):
> rcu: Add missing __cpuinit annotation in rcutorture code
>
> Paul E. McKenney (1):
> sched: Add "const" to is_idle_task() parameter
>
> Rusty Russell (1):
> rcu: Make rcutorture bool parameters really bool (core code)
>
> include/linux/sched.h | 2 +-
> kernel/rcutorture.c | 8 ++++----
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Pulled them into tip:core/urgent, thanks Paul!

Thanks,

Ingo
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