There have been persistent lockdep RCU splats, indicating that submitters
are not testing with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU. Add this config option to the list
in Documentation/SubmitChecklist. Also add CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
for good measure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
The sleeping inside spinlock detection is actually used
for more general sleeping inside atomic sections
debugging: preemption disabled, rcu read side critical
sections, interrupts, interrupt disabled, etc...
Change the name of the config and its help section to
reflect its more general role.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Add build testing using 'O=builddir'.
Add build testing with various kconfig symbols disabled, listing
common ones that are known to cause build problems.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Add header file requirements. Compliments of Stephen Rothwell.
Stephen calls this Rule #1, so I put it there, but I didn't want to demote
any of the others in the list, so I made one of them number 2b.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
If a patch adds ioctls, then Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt
should also be updated.
Remove reference to the OSDL PLM build farm.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Follow-up to "block: enable by default support for large devices
and files on 32-bit archs".
Rename CONFIG_LBD to CONFIG_LBDAF to:
- allow update of existing [def]configs for "default y" change
- reflect that it is used also for large files support nowadays
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
We want all uses of memory barriers to be explained in the source code.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Kernel style is mentioned twice, and the git apply trick is a bit redundant
given the checkpatch.pl recommendation (which also checks for bad
whitespace).
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions
to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree. These detract from
the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers.
As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and
include it in the kernel tree. Add instructions suggesting running it on
submissions. This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Update Documentation/SubmitChecklist.
- Mention lockdep coverage
- Describe documentation requirements
- Number the various items to simplify the composition of caustic emails.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Provide a checklist of techniques to aid kernel patch submitters in
producing healthy patches and in lessening a burden on maintainers.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Stephen Rothwell