Re: [PATCH 2/3] Keys: Use RCU to manage session keyring pointer

David Howells
2005-03-23T21:30:06Z

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > The attached patch uses RCU to manage the session keyring pointer in struct
> > signal_struct.
>
> So are these patches dependent upon the
> keys-use-rcu-to-manage-session-keyring-pointer work?

This patch (2/3) shouldn't be dependent on that. It does extra RCU-age on a
different pointer entirely. The other RCU-age patch deals with specific key
types.

However, the third patch adds extra stuff into keyring support, and so is
RCU'd keyrings dependent.

David