From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761974AbXIVHGW (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:06:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757595AbXIVHGN (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:06:13 -0400 Received: from smtpoutm.mac.com ([17.148.16.71]:61486 "EHLO smtpoutm.mac.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757485AbXIVHGM (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:06:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <1190313251.4518.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070921171256.GA9059@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add CRC checksum for RCU lists Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:04:47 -0400 To: Steven Rostedt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sep 21, 2007, at 17:32:08, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 02:34:11PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >>> -#define RCU_HEAD_INIT { .next = NULL, .func = NULL } >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_CRC_HEADER_CHECK >>> + >>> +#define RCU_CRC_MAGIC 0xC4809168UL >> >> Very magic indeed -- Google doesn't find it, other than in your >> patch. ;-) > > Paul, I'm disappointed in you. That number doesn't ring a bell at > all?? > > (hint, ignore the 'C' that was added by me). LOL! The RCU patent number; very clever indeed! Cheers, Kyle Moffett