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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-05-13 00:56:35 +0200
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-06-09 03:52:41 +0200
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parentrcu: Remove the now-obsolete PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option (diff)
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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>
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@@ -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