Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Jun 2014 17:28:23 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] introduce atomic_pointer to fix a race condition in cancelable mcs spinlocks |
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 04:53:44PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > 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.
Cool, giving it a test...
Thanx, Paul
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