Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] cpufreq: split the cpufreq_driver_lock and use the rcu

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, April 02, 2013 08:29:12 PM Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 2 April 2013 20:25, Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The lock is unneeded if we expect register and unregister driver to not be
> > called from muliple threads at once.  I didn't make that assumption.
> 
> Hmm.. But doesn't rcu part take care of that too?? Two writers
> updating stuff simultaneously?

RCU doesn't cover that in general.  Additional locking is needed to provide
synchronization between writers.

Thanks,
Rafael


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