Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755079AbZJEWKB (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:10:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755064AbZJEWKA (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:10:00 -0400 Received: from bc.sympatico.ca ([209.226.175.184]:35410 "EHLO tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754615AbZJEWKA (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:10:00 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq8EAMcIykpMROOX/2dsb2JhbACBUtBvhCoEhjU Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:08:50 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Josh Triplett , Jon Bernard , Jan Blunck , "Paul E. McKenney" , Pierre Habouzit , Steven Munroe , Bert Wesarg , Pierre-Marc Fournier Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rp@svcs.cs.pdx.edu, ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca Subject: [RELEASE] Userspace RCU library (liburcu) 0.2.2 Message-ID: <20091005220850.GA21419@Krystal> References: <20090929210951.GC28427@Krystal> <20091001135611.GA12323@Krystal> <20091002170548.GA19796@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091002170548.GA19796@Krystal> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.27.31-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 18:06:46 up 48 days, 8:56, 3 users, load average: 0.61, 0.27, 0.23 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1917 Lines: 67 Hi again, New update. Userspace RCU 0.2.2: - Phases out rcu_publish_content() api. - Adds type checking to urcu-pointer.h pointer exchange primitives. Mathieu P.S.: maybe I should setup a mailing list for these announcements ? Comments ? * Mathieu Desnoyers (compudj@krystal.dyndns.org) wrote: > Hello, > > Userspace RCU 0.2.1 includes: > > - small header dependency fix for rculist.h. > - new "liburcu-bp.so" : "Bulletproof RCU", made especially for the UST > userspace tracer. It's a library that sacrifices a bit of read-side > performance for automatically monitoring thread creation/removal. See > README for details. > > Thanks, > > Mathieu > > * Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here is a 0.2 version of the urcu library. It should clarify usage of > > > > rcu_cmpxchg_pointer > > rcu_xchg_pointer > > rcu_set_pointer > > > > which are the recommended primitives to deal with pointers. > > rcu_assign_pointer(ptr, new) is provided as compatibility layer with the > > Linux kernel semantic, but note that its semantic for the first > > parameter is IMHO odd and differs from rcu_{cmpxchg,xchg,set}_pointer. > > > > Website URL: > > http://lttng.org/urcu > > > > Direct link to the package: > > http://www.lttng.org/files/urcu/userspace-rcu-0.2.tar.gz > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mathieu > > > > -- > > Mathieu Desnoyers > > OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 > > -- > Mathieu Desnoyers > OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/