From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dipankar Sarma Subject: Re: Question about usage of RCU in the input layer Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:31:28 +0530 Message-ID: <20090320060128.GC6167@in.ibm.com> References: <20090318215812.15496a86@infradead.org> <20090319085628.GA6167@in.ibm.com> <20090319071841.63334eff@infradead.org> <20090320020750.GA6807@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20090319202032.4c971d92@infradead.org> <20090320044541.GE6807@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <49C3296B.1020209@cosmosbay.com> Reply-To: dipankar@in.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:43340 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751720AbZCTGBi (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:01:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49C3296B.1020209@cosmosbay.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Dumazet Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Arjan van de Ven , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:28:11AM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Paul E. McKenney a =E9crit : > Hmm... point is to make linux boot as fast as possible, so ... >=20 > Use a special variant of udelay() in offending drivers that make appr= opriate > RCU call to increment quiescent state ? It may not be safe to do this it is in a RCU read-side critical section= =2E Thanks Dipankar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html