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On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:19 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> 
> We could, but I guess its not a recommended practice anymore to depend on
> spinlocks to protect rcu readside.

Not only is it not recommended, its a flat out bug for PREEMPT_RCU.