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From: David Miller on 6 Aug 2010 17:50
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:26:07 -0700

> At long last, the following is the final patch blocking acceptance
> of Arnd's sparse annotations for RCU. It was itself blocked behind
> the definition of rcu_dereference_index_check(), which made it to
> mainline only just today.
>
> Would you be willing to ack this patch so that I can push it to -tip,
> along with Arnd's work and a bunch of other stuff?
...
> net: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check()
>
> The task_cls_classid() function applies rcu_dereference() to integers,
> which does not work with the shiny new sparse-based checking in
> rcu_dereference(). This commit therefore moves to the new RCU API
> rcu_dereference_index_check().
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh(a)joshtriplett.org>

You should of course wait for Herbert's ACK too, but for
the record:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem(a)davemloft.net>

:-)
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From: Paul E. McKenney on 6 Aug 2010 18:00
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:49:01PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:26:07 -0700
>
> > At long last, the following is the final patch blocking acceptance
> > of Arnd's sparse annotations for RCU. It was itself blocked behind
> > the definition of rcu_dereference_index_check(), which made it to
> > mainline only just today.
> >
> > Would you be willing to ack this patch so that I can push it to -tip,
> > along with Arnd's work and a bunch of other stuff?
> ...
> > net: convert to rcu_dereference_index_check()
> >
> > The task_cls_classid() function applies rcu_dereference() to integers,
> > which does not work with the shiny new sparse-based checking in
> > rcu_dereference(). This commit therefore moves to the new RCU API
> > rcu_dereference_index_check().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh(a)joshtriplett.org>
>
> You should of course wait for Herbert's ACK too, but for
> the record:
>
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem(a)davemloft.net>
>
> :-)

Thank you, David!!! ;-)

Thanx, Paul
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From: Herbert Xu on 6 Aug 2010 18:20
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:26:07PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello, Herbert!
>
> At long last, the following is the final patch blocking acceptance
> of Arnd's sparse annotations for RCU. It was itself blocked behind
> the definition of rcu_dereference_index_check(), which made it to
> mainline only just today.
>
> Would you be willing to ack this patch so that I can push it to -tip,
> along with Arnd's work and a bunch of other stuff?

Sure,

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert(a)gondor.apana.org.au>

Thanks,
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From: Paul E. McKenney on 6 Aug 2010 19:00
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 06:15:20AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:26:07PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello, Herbert!
> >
> > At long last, the following is the final patch blocking acceptance
> > of Arnd's sparse annotations for RCU. It was itself blocked behind
> > the definition of rcu_dereference_index_check(), which made it to
> > mainline only just today.
> >
> > Would you be willing to ack this patch so that I can push it to -tip,
> > along with Arnd's work and a bunch of other stuff?
>
> Sure,
>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert(a)gondor.apana.org.au>

Thank you, Herbert!!!

Thanx, Paul
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