Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/2] rcu: Apply review feedback from JoshTriplett, part 4

From: Josh Triplett
Date: Sun Sep 27 2009 - 11:31:49 EST


On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:49:51PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> These issues identified during an old-fashioned face-to-face code
> review extending over many hours. This group improves an existing
> abstraction and introduces two new ones.
>
> o Make RCU_INIT_FLAVOR() declare its own variables, removing
> the need to declare them at each call site.
>
> o Create an rcu_for_each_leaf() macro that scans the leaf nodes
> of the rcu_node tree.
>
> o Create an rcu_for_each_node_breadth_first() macro that does
> a breadth-first traversal of the rcu_node tree, AKA stepping
> through the array in index-number order.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I noticed one bit of unrelated code in this patch, which the commit
message doesn't mention:

> --- a/kernel/rcutree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
[...]
> @@ -473,18 +471,24 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp)
> return;
> }
> rsp->jiffies_stall = jiffies + RCU_SECONDS_TILL_STALL_RECHECK;
> +
> + /*
> + * Now rat on any tasks that got kicked up to the root rcu_node
> + * due to CPU offlining.
> + */
> + rcu_print_task_stall(rnp);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);

- Josh Triplett
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