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SubjectRe: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/3] membarrier: Provide register expedited private command
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:32:19AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > AFAIU the scheduler rq->lock is held while preemption is disabled.
> > synchronize_sched() is used here to ensure that all pre-existing
> > preempt-off critical sections have completed.
> >
> > So saying that we use synchronize_sched() to synchronize with rq->lock
> > would be stretching the truth a bit. It's actually only true because the
> > scheduler holding the rq->lock is surrounded by a preempt-off
> > critical section.
>
> No, rq->lock is sufficient, note that rq->lock is a raw_spinlock_t which
> implies !preempt. Yes, we also surround the rq->lock usage with a
> slightly larger preempt_disable() section but that's not in fact
> required for this.

That's what it is, according to the current sources: we seemed to agree that
a preempt-off critical section is what we rely on here and that the start of
this critical section is not marked by that raw_spin_lock.

Andrea

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