Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Feb 2016 16:04:42 +0000 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook |
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:07:58AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:54:26 +0000 > Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote: > > > > Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> > > Will,
Hi Steve,
> The patch looks good to me. Do you want to take it through your tree? > > It benefits mainline too as a rcu_read_lock() is more efficient than > rwlocks. Although I will say this is a slow path anyway.
I was thinking that Catalin would queue it for 4.6 in the arm64 tree, since that's probably easiest in case any unlikely conflicts crop up.
Will
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