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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] Fix: trace sched switch start/stop racy updates
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 04:49:12PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 16:44:10 -0400
> Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:
>
>
> > I am also more on the side of using *_ONCE. To me, by principal, I
> > would be willing to convert any concurrent plain access using _ONCE,
> > just so we don't have to worry about it now or in the future and also
> > documents the access.
> >
> > Perhaps the commit message can be reworded to mention that the _ONCE
> > is an additional clean up for safe access.
>
> The most I'll take is two separate patches. One is going to be marked
> for stable as it fixes a real bug. The other is more for cosmetic or
> theoretical issues, that I will state clearly "NOT FOR STABLE", such
> that the autosel doesn't take them.

Makes sense to me!

thanks,

- Joel


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