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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, paulus@samba.org,
	acme@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] perf: fix find_swevent_head() RCU lockdep splat
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 09:04:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100520070403.GB5309@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273823225.5605.3604.camel@twins>

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 09:47:05AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 22:48 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > +       head = find_swevent_head(cpuctx, event->attr.type,
> > +                                event->attr.config, event); 
> 
> might as well only pass event and have the function do those derefs.


Yeah, why not. But now that I see we can optimize the scheduling
side with rcu_dereference_protected, it's probably better to keep
the two derefs protected.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-13 18:25 [PATCH RFC] perf: fix find_swevent_head() RCU lockdep splat Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-13 19:03 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-13 19:46   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-13 20:26     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-13 20:48     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-13 20:59       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-13 23:43         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-05-20  7:01           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-05-14  7:47       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-20  7:04         ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2010-05-14  7:44   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-20  7:04     ` Frederic Weisbecker

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