Re: [PATCH] rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side criticalsection?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > I saw those, he posted 'needs testing' patches. He still behaved 
> > passive-aggressively, pretending that it was some difficult task to 
> > perform, as if we were pulling his teeth.
> 
> I need your review of those. I will rediff as soon as rc1 is out to send 
> something that can be put into -next. Please tell me until then if the 
> approach is ok. I dont think we can do anything in the merge window.

The patch looked OK. Have you tested it, such as using a this_cpu op on a 
PREEMPT=y kernel in a preemptible section? That should trigger the preempt 
warning.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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