Re: 2.5.69-mm3

[Dipankar Sarma]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 08:41:12AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.69-mm3.gz
> 
>   Will appear sometime at
> 
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.69/2.5.69-mm3/
> 
> 
> Small things.  Mainly a resync for various people...
> 
> rcu-stats.patch
>   RCU statistics reporting

I am wondering what we should do with this patch. The RCU stats display
the #s of RCU requests and actual updates on each CPU. On a normal system
they don't mean much to a sysadmin, so I am not sure if it is the right
thing to include this feature. OTOH, it is extremely useful to detect
potential memory leaks happening due to, say a CPU looping in
kernel (and RCU not happening consequently). Will a CONFIG_RCU_DEBUG
make it more palatable for mainline ?

Thanks
Dipankar