From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: use non-BH variant of RCU Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:09:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100811.230936.183035599.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100810211932.GG2379@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20100810.163117.241919476.davem@davemloft.net> <20100811220047.GH2516@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:57435 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752485Ab0HLGJT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:09:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100811220047.GH2516@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:00:47 -0700 > @@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ int rcu_my_thread_group_empty(void) > return thread_group_empty(current); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_my_thread_group_empty); > + > +void rcu_read_unlock_bh_irqsoff_check(void) > +{ > + WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq() || irqs_disabled()); > +} > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_read_unlock_bh_irqsoff_check); > #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU */ Is this WARN_ON_ONCE() test inverted? It seems to be called where we "should be" in an IRQ or have IRQs disabled.