Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:47:30 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Pranith Kumar <pranith@gatech.edu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kernel/torture.c: unmark torture_init_* as __inline
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 05:34:26PM -0400, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Good catch, queued for 3.16!  I missed it because of my habit of building
> > the torture tests directly into the kernel rather than loading them
> > as modules.  So thank you both for the patch and for your testing efforts!
> 
> You are welcome!
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, what are you thinking of using this for?
> >
> 
> I am exploring RCU in my research, looking for ways to apply the ideas
> to GPGPU and was studying the source code in the kernel. I will
> hopefully be using this in the future.

Nice!  Please let me know how it goes!

> (I should probably stick to userspace rcu :)

It might be better suited to your needs, but by all means continue
testing and inspecting the Linux-kernel RCU!  It does feel good to
get rid of some of the cruft, and I probably would never spot it.

Thank you again!

							Thanx, Paul

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