From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] rcu: cosmetic, delete wrong comment, use HARDIRQ_OFFSET
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:06:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41A9F76D.55694D6C@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20041128143128.GA2714@holomorphy.com
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 06:06:52PM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > Afaics, this comment is misleading. rcu_check_quiescent_state()
> > is executed in softirq context, while rcu_check_callbacks() checks
> > in_softirq() before ++qsctr.
>
> rcu_qsctr_inc() does *NOT* check in_softirq(), and yes, scheduling
> does occur directly off the timer interrupt. For instance, for
> userspace tasks whose timeslices have expired.
But schedule()->rcu_qsctr_inc() can happen only after return from
do_softirq(), so where is the race?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-28 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-28 15:06 [PATCH 1/2] rcu: cosmetic, delete wrong comment, use HARDIRQ_OFFSET Oleg Nesterov
2004-11-28 14:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-11-28 16:06 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2004-11-28 15:19 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-11-28 15:24 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-11-28 15:42 ` Dipankar Sarma
2004-11-28 17:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
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