Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: IPC: sleeping function called ...

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Sep 18 2007 - 12:13:50 EST


On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:24:51PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:34:00 -0700 Andrew Morton
> <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Well, it was an optimisation. spin_lock() implies rcu_read_lock(). That's
> > a bit dirty and we might choose to not do that.
>
> Not true for the preemptible-rcu work. All such sites should be fixed,
> or at the very least heavily annotated.

What he said!!!

Thanx, Paul
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