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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3]
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:57:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5145.1110459468@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5005.1110459008@redhat.com>

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> > What's with the preempt_enable()/disable() added to __key_link()?  It's not
> > obvious what is being protected from what, and why.
> 
> Ummm... Yes... They're probably not necessary. A wmb() may be required after
> the klist->nkeys++ to commit to memory the fact there's now an extra key link
> available, but I'm not sure that it's necessary.

I should perhaps be using smp_wmb() not wmb().

David

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-10 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-10 12:01 [PATCH] keys: Discard key spinlock and use RCU for key payload [try #3] David Howells
2005-03-10 12:22 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 12:50   ` David Howells
2005-03-10 12:57     ` David Howells [this message]
2005-03-10 13:02     ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-10 13:14       ` David Howells

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