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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-05-12 15:56:35 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-06-08 18:52:41 -0700 |
| commit | 41a2901e7d220875752a8c870e0b53288a578c20 (patch) | |
| tree | 7fee0c0fb4e4de059050c0003c370042bb832ffc /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
| parent | c4a09ff752e164c020bced6513e2008f992a02e6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-41a2901e7d220875752a8c870e0b53288a578c20.tar.bz2 | |
rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option
The sparse-based checking for non-RCU accesses to RCU-protected pointers
has been around for a very long time, and it is now the only type of
sparse-based checking that is optional. This commit therefore makes
it unconditional.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index 877947130ebe..6beda556faf3 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -413,11 +413,11 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! read-side critical sections. It is the responsibility of the RCU update-side primitives to deal with this. -17. Use CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD, and the - __rcu sparse checks (enabled by CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER) to - validate your RCU code. These can help find problems as follows: +17. Use CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD, and the + __rcu sparse checks to validate your RCU code. These can help + find problems as follows: - CONFIG_PROVE_RCU: check that accesses to RCU-protected data + CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING: check that accesses to RCU-protected data structures are carried out under the proper RCU read-side critical section, while holding the right combination of locks, or whatever other conditions |