From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com>,
Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>,
Parisc List <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Vinod, Chegu" <chegu_vinod@hp.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>, Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
"Chandramouleeswaran, Aswin" <aswin@hp.com>,
"Norton, Scott J" <scott.norton@hp.com>,
Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] introduce atomic_pointer to fix a race condition in cancelable mcs spinlocks
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 17:28:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140603002823.GI22231@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401753224.3645.190.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 04:53:44PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 16:17 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > But given that I already have preemption disabled and given that
> > __srcu_read_lock() is not to be used by irq handlers, I should be able to
> > use __this_cpu_inc(), correct? Just to avoid unnecessary irq disabling
> > on non-x86 platforms...
>
> Absolutely, __this_cpu_inc() is OK here.
Cool, giving it a test...
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-03 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-01 17:53 [PATCH] fix a race condition in cancelable mcs spinlocks Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-01 19:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-01 20:46 ` John David Anglin
2014-06-01 21:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-01 21:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-02 9:19 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-02 13:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-02 15:57 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-02 16:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-02 19:56 ` James Bottomley
2014-06-03 7:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-04 12:53 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-02 13:58 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-02 14:02 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-02 15:39 ` John David Anglin
2014-06-02 10:34 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-02 14:14 ` Waiman Long
2014-06-02 15:27 ` Jason Low
2014-06-02 16:00 ` [PATCH v2] introduce atomic_pointer to " Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-02 16:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-02 16:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-02 16:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-02 17:33 ` Waiman Long
2014-06-02 20:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-02 20:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-02 21:02 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-02 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-02 22:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-02 22:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-06-02 23:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-02 23:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-06-03 0:28 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2014-06-02 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-03 16:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-03 7:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-02 20:24 ` James Bottomley
2014-06-02 16:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-02 17:14 ` James Bottomley
2014-06-02 17:29 ` Waiman Long
2014-06-02 17:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-02 17:12 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-02 17:42 ` Waiman Long
2014-06-02 20:46 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-02 20:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-02 21:12 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-03 7:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 11:14 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-03 13:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 14:18 ` Mikulas Patocka
2014-06-03 14:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-03 15:09 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-03 15:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-03 7:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-02 21:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-06 15:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-06 15:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-06 15:42 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2014-06-02 16:50 ` Jason Low
2014-06-02 17:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-06-02 17:25 ` Waiman Long
2014-06-02 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
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