From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: use non-BH variant of RCU
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:20:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100811122026.GB2587@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100811110330.GA6440@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 07:03:30AM -0400, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:31:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Linus's tree is fine for this.
> >
> > But we need this fix for 2.6.35-stable too. Herbert would
> > you object to putting John's more simple fix there?
>
> To use rcu_read_lock safely we'd also need to add do synchronize_rcu
> in addition of synchronize_rcu_bh, right Paul?
That is true.
> Of course as we were doing this unsafely prior to my patch anyway
> I'm also fine with just reverting it.
That is true as well.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-11 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-10 20:25 [PATCH] netpoll: use non-BH variant of RCU John W. Linville
2010-08-10 20:43 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-10 21:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-10 23:31 ` David Miller
2010-08-11 11:03 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-11 11:27 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-11 15:37 ` John W. Linville
2010-08-12 6:16 ` David Miller
2010-08-11 12:20 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2010-08-11 22:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-12 6:09 ` David Miller
2010-08-12 15:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-13 14:39 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-13 16:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-13 17:51 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-13 17:51 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-15 6:50 ` David Miller
2010-08-15 6:50 ` David Miller
2010-09-02 17:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-02 17:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-03 15:34 ` David Miller
2010-09-03 15:34 ` David Miller
2010-09-03 15:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-03 15:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
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