Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:16:02 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip 1/2] [PATCH -tip 1/2] sched: Reinstate group names in /proc/sched_debug. |
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:18:32PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:19 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > > > > We could, but I guess its not a recommended practice anymore to depend on > > spinlocks to protect rcu readside. > > Not only is it not recommended, its a flat out bug for PREEMPT_RCU.
And lockdep-RCU will yell at you under PREEMPT_RCU, which will result in Miles Lane yelling at me. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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