Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 17:50:55 -0400
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, Jon Bernard <jbernard@debian.org>,
       Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>,
       "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
       Steven Munroe <munroesj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
       Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>,
       Pierre-Marc Fournier <pierre-marc.fournier@polymtl.ca>
Cc: ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, rp@svcs.cs.pdx.edu,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Userspace RCU library, now with autotools
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Hello,

Pierre-Marc contributed patches moving urcu to autotools. I would
appreciate if someone can test it on powerpc and s390 before I can
proceed to a release.

Available at:

git://lttng.org/userspace-rcu.git

See updated README for details.

Thanks,

Mathieu


* Mathieu Desnoyers (compudj@krystal.dyndns.org) wrote:
> 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
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> 
> -- 
> Mathieu Desnoyers
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