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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RCU recursion? (code inspection)
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 12:41:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150501194102.GH5381@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5543D184.4070707@redhat.com>

On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 03:18:28PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> While looking at synchronize_rcu(), I noticed that
> synchronize_rcu_expedited() calls synchronize_sched_expedited(),
> which can call synchronize_sched() when it is worried about
> the counter wrapping, which can call synchronize_sched_expedited()
> 
> The code is sufficiently convoluted that I am unsure whether this
> recursion can actually happen in practice, but I also did not spot
> anything that would stop it.

Hmmm...  Sounds like I should take a look!

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-01 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-01 19:18 RCU recursion? (code inspection) Rik van Riel
2015-05-01 19:41 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2015-05-01 20:10   ` Paul E. McKenney

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