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Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: use non-BH variant of RCU
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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:51:57 -0400

> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 09:29:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> But all in all, mightn't it be easier to remove the checks from
>> _local_bh_enable(), and then just use rcu_read_lock_bh()?  Have those
>> checks really been that helpful in finding bugs?  ;-)
> 
> You are right.  It would be much simpler to simply have it not
> warn.

For now I'm going to assume that this is how the issue will be
addressed.