Re: [PATCH 4/4] rcu: use gp_seq instead of rcu_gp_seq for consistency

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:10:25PM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 07:12:48AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:07:55AM +0800, Wei Yang wrote:
> >> Commit de30ad512a66 ("rcu: Introduce grace-period sequence numbers")
> >> introduce gp_seq in rcu_state/rcu_node/rcu_data. And this field in last
> >> two structure track the one in first.
> >> 
> >> While the comment use rcu_gp_seq which is a little misleading for
> >> audience. Let's use the exact name gp_seq for consistency.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
> >
> >I applied and pushed the others -- good eyes, and thank you!
> >
> >This one does not apply.  Could you please forward-port it to
> >the "dev" branch of -rcu?
> 
> The reason is someone has already fixed this :-)

That would explain it!  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

> >git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
> >
> >							Thanx, Paul
> >
> >> ---
> >>  kernel/rcu/tree.h | 4 ++--
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
> >> index 512829eed545..3356842bc185 100644
> >> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h
> >> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
> >> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ struct rcu_node {
> >>  	raw_spinlock_t __private lock;	/* Root rcu_node's lock protects */
> >>  					/*  some rcu_state fields as well as */
> >>  					/*  following. */
> >> -	unsigned long gp_seq;	/* Track rsp->rcu_gp_seq. */
> >> +	unsigned long gp_seq;	/* Track rsp->gp_seq. */
> >>  	unsigned long gp_seq_needed; /* Track furthest future GP request. */
> >>  	unsigned long completedqs; /* All QSes done for this node. */
> >>  	unsigned long qsmask;	/* CPUs or groups that need to switch in */
> >> @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ union rcu_noqs {
> >>  /* Per-CPU data for read-copy update. */
> >>  struct rcu_data {
> >>  	/* 1) quiescent-state and grace-period handling : */
> >> -	unsigned long	gp_seq;		/* Track rsp->rcu_gp_seq counter. */
> >> +	unsigned long	gp_seq;		/* Track rsp->gp_seq. */
> >>  	unsigned long	gp_seq_needed;	/* Track furthest future GP request. */
> >>  	union rcu_noqs	cpu_no_qs;	/* No QSes yet for this CPU. */
> >>  	bool		core_needs_qs;	/* Core waits for quiesc state. */
> >> -- 
> >> 2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)
> >> 
> 
> -- 
> Wei Yang
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