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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] srcu: queue work without holding the lock
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:46:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171011164647.GJ3521@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171011164012.3vvvy4inogesfjb7@linutronix.de>

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 06:40:12PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2017-10-10 14:43:13 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > OK, internally I could get rid of raw_ at the expense of some code bloat,
> > > but in the call_srcu() case, the caller might well hold a raw_ lock.
> > 
> > Except that none currently do, so maybe downgrading from raw_ locks is
> > a reasonable course of action.  Does the following patch help?
> 
> so you revert the raw_ access, this should work. I will apply it
> tomorrow and let you know.

Indeed.  I checked and the current callers of call_srcu() are not
doing so while holding raw spinlocks.  Now, call_rcu() is quite a
different story...

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-11 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-22 15:28 [PATCH 1/3] srcu: use cpu_online() instead custom check Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-09-22 15:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] srcu: queue work without holding the lock Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-09-22 18:46   ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-09-28 16:03     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-09-29  1:10       ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-10-10 21:43         ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-10-11 16:40           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-10-11 16:46             ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-10-12  8:53           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-10-12 18:24             ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-10-13  7:08               ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-09-22 15:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] rcu/segcblist: include rcupdate.h Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-09-22 18:47   ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-09-22 18:43 ` [PATCH 1/3] srcu: use cpu_online() instead custom check Paul E. McKenney
2017-09-28 16:02   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2017-09-29  1:09     ` Paul E. McKenney

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