From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758964Ab0EEKPK (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 06:15:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:27964 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752120Ab0EEKPG (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 May 2010 06:15:06 -0400 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1273004398-19760-36-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1273004398-19760-36-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100504201934.GA19234@linux.vnet.ibm.com> To: "Paul E. McKenney" , Trond Myklebust Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 36/48] nfs: __rcu annotations Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 11:14:03 +0100 Message-ID: <23175.1273054443@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul E. McKenney wrote: > struct nfs_delegation { > struct list_head super_list; > - struct rpc_cred *cred; > + struct rpc_cred __rcu *cred; > struct inode *inode; > nfs4_stateid stateid; > fmode_t type; That's unnecessary. I posted a patch that removed the usage of RCU on that pointer: Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:26:13 +0100 Subject: NFS: Fix RCU issues in the NFSv4 delegation code Did Trond take it? David