Re: [PATCH] cred - synchronize rcu before releasing cred

[David Howells]

David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yeah.  I think there are three alternatives:

There's a fourth alternative too:

 (4) I could try and make it so that if the RCU cleanup routine sees it with a
     non-zero usage count, then it just ignores it.  This, however, would
     require call_rcu() to be able to cope with requeueing.

David
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