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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix RCU warnings in nfs_inode_return_delegation_noreclaim() [ver #2]
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:16:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100331151604.GC2461@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10818.1270044273@redhat.com>

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:04:33PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > How about Eric's suggestion of rcu_dereference_protected()?  That name
> > doesn't imply a lock, which as you say above, isn't always needed to
> > keep the structure from changing.
> 
> But 'protected' from what or by what?

Protected by something that the caller did, be it holding the the correct
lock, operating on it during initialization before other CPUs have access
to it, operating on it during cleanup after other CPUs' access has been
revoked, or whatever.

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-18 13:33 [PATCH] NFS: Fix RCU warnings in nfs_inode_return_delegation_noreclaim() [ver #2] David Howells
2010-03-19  2:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-29 19:02 ` David Howells
2010-03-29 19:21   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-29 20:15   ` David Howells
2010-03-29 20:26     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-29 21:05     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-29 22:22     ` David Howells
2010-03-29 22:36       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-29 22:59       ` David Howells
2010-03-29 23:26         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-30 15:40           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-30 16:39           ` David Howells
2010-03-30 16:49             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-30 17:04               ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-30 17:25                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-30 23:51             ` David Howells
2010-03-31  0:08               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-31 14:04               ` David Howells
2010-03-31 15:16                 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2010-03-31 17:37                 ` David Howells
2010-03-31 18:30                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-31 18:32                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-03-31 22:53                   ` David Howells
2010-04-01  1:29                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-01 11:45                     ` David Howells
2010-04-01 14:39                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-01 14:46                       ` David Howells
2010-04-05 17:57                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-06  9:30                         ` David Howells
2010-04-06 16:14                         ` David Howells
2010-04-06 17:29                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-06 19:34                           ` David Howells
2010-04-07  0:02                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-07 13:22                             ` David Howells
2010-04-07 15:57                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-07 16:35                               ` RCU condition checks David Howells
2010-04-07 17:10                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-11 22:57                                   ` Trond Myklebust
2010-04-12 16:47                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-03-30 16:37         ` [PATCH] NFS: Fix RCU warnings in nfs_inode_return_delegation_noreclaim() [ver #2] David Howells
2010-03-30 17:01           ` Paul E. McKenney

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