From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linville@tuxdriver.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: use non-BH variant of RCU
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:50:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100814.235033.02286546.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100813175157.GA29586@gondor.apana.org.au>
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.
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2010-08-13 17:51 ` Herbert Xu
2010-08-15 6:50 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-02 17:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-03 15:34 ` David Miller
2010-09-03 15:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
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