Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] introduce atomic_pointer to fix a race condition in cancelable mcs spinlocks | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:53:44 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2014-06-02 at 16:17 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> But given that I already have preemption disabled and given that > __srcu_read_lock() is not to be used by irq handlers, I should be able to > use __this_cpu_inc(), correct? Just to avoid unnecessary irq disabling > on non-x86 platforms...
Absolutely, __this_cpu_inc() is OK here.
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