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SubjectRe: [PATCH] rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section?
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 03:36:04PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:23:43AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > And guys, I have to say that the advice on which per-CPU primitive to use
> > varies wildly and randomly. For all I know, each of you individually
> > might well be sticking to the same story, but taken together, your
> > collective advice is strongly resembling white noise.
>
> Its partly because cl and I disagree on things. He doesn't seem to care
> much about validation and believes that people will not make mistakes
> with this stuff.

At some point, my only recourse would be to require an Acked-by from one
of you for any per-CPU changes proposed by the other. I really hope that
it doesn't come to that, but this situation is getting a bit annoying.

> And partly because I didn't get what was going on. While Frederic's
> explanation might be correct it was incomprehensible for me.

And I freely admit that the comments on rcu_is_cpu_idle() are completely
inadequate, and I do apologize for that. Seemed clear at the time.
But then it always does, doesn't it? ;-)

Thanx, Paul



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