Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation and rcutorture changes

From: Josh Triplett
Date: Thu Aug 30 2012 - 14:56:42 EST


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:44:48AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This series covers changes to rcutorture and documentation updates.
> The individual patches in this series are as follows:
>
> 1. Update rcutorture default values so that casual rcutorture
> users will do more aggressive testing.
> 2. Make rcutorture track CPU-hotplug latency statistics.
> 3. Document SRCU's new-found ability to be used by offline and
> idle CPUs, and also emphasize SRCU's limitations.
> 4. Use the new pr_*() interfaces in rcutorture.
> 5. Prevent kthread-initialization races in rcutorture.
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | 6 +
> b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 9 +-
> b/kernel/rcutorture.c | 4 -
> kernel/rcutorture.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 4 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

Something seems wrong with this diffstat; how'd the b/ prefixes get
there, and why does it list kernel/rcutorture.c twice, once with and
once without?

- Josh Triplett
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