Re: [RFC PATCH] locking/percpu-rwsem: use this_cpu_{inc|dec}() for read_count

Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-17T13:43:22Z

On 09/17, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 02:01:33PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > IIUC, file_end_write() was never IRQ safe (at least if !CONFIG_SMP), even
> > before 8129ed2964 ("change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore"), but this
> > doesn't matter...
> >
> > Perhaps we can change aio.c, io_uring.c and fs/overlayfs/file.c to avoid
> > file_end_write() in IRQ context, but I am not sure it's worth the trouble.
>
> If we change bio_endio to invoke the ->bi_end_io callbacks in softirq

Not sure I understand...

How can this help? irq_exit() can invoke_softirq() -> __do_softirq() ?

Oleg.