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From:   Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:29:32 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 4/7] tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:17:01 -0700
>> So then, we should use the regular variant for this additional check you're
>> suggesting.
>
> OK, I thought we had a rcu_dereference_notrace() that did checks and
> thought that this followed suit, but it appears there is no such call.
> That's where my confusion was.
>
> Sure, I'll nuke the notrace() portion, thanks.
>
> Also, I've applied 1-3, since 4 and 5 looks to be getting a remake, I'm
> going to remove them from my queue. Please fold the SPDX patch into 5.

Will do, and send out the 4 and 5 shortly with the SPDK folded.

Also the kselftest patches were acked and can be taken independently,
I had reposted them as a separate 2 patch series with some minor
changes based on your suggestions. Could you check them?

thanks!

- Joel