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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [RT PATCH 2/2] timers: wakeup all timer waiters without holding the base lock
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:19:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f0be3636-1189-9bf9-37f0-40ad1d32baf7@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160714120917.038b215b@gandalf.local.home>

On 07/14/2016 06:09 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:05:04 +0200
> Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 
>> There should be no need to hold the base lock during the wakeup. There
>> should be no boosting involved, the wakeup list has its own lock so it
>> should be safe to do this without the lock.
>>
>> Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org
> 
> Nothing against this patch, but as you marked it for stable, can you
> add to the change log what issue you had that caused you to make this
> change?

#1 was noticed while looking at the code, it *might* happen.
#2 Is not strictly required for back porting.
I just don't see a reason for holding the lock, that is all.

> -- Steve

Sebastian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-14 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-14 16:05 [RT PATCH 1/2] timers: wakeup all timer waiters Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-07-14 16:05 ` [RT PATCH 2/2] timers: wakeup all timer waiters without holding the base lock Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-07-14 16:09   ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-14 17:19     ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]
2016-07-14 17:21       ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-14 16:13 ` [RT PATCH 1/2] timers: wakeup all timer waiters Steven Rostedt
2016-07-14 17:14   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-07-14 17:19     ` Steven Rostedt
2016-07-14 18:37       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior

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