Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] rcu doc updates for whatisRCU and checklist

From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Fri Oct 05 2018 - 22:10:58 EST


On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 05:13:26PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Here are this week's rcu doc updates based on combing through whatisRCU and
> > checklists. Hopefully you agree with them. I left several old _bh and _sched
> > API references as is, since I don't think its a good idea to remove them till
> > the APIs themselves are removed, however I did remove several of them as well
> > (like in the first patch in this series) since I feel its better to "encourage"
> > new users not to use the old API.
> >
> > Also do you think it makes sense for us to write coccinelle patches to check if
> > folks use them on new patches? Btw, I am new to coccinelle but I'd love to give
> > it a try, it looks exciting. I remember you saying you wanted to do that, so
> > that's something else you could potentially offload to me as you see fit ;-)
> >
> > Thank you very much!
>
> Good catches, applied and pushed, thank you!
>
> I updated the commit log and a couple of the patches a bit, so could
> you please double-check them?

Yes I checked and it looks good, thanks!

- Joel