Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees][PATCH] doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq

[Shuah Khan]

On 6/27/19 4:10 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 04:01:35PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > On 6/27/19 3:01 PM, Jiunn Chang wrote:
> > > The UP.rst file calls for locks acquired within RCU callback functions
> > > to use _irq variants (spin_lock_irqsave() or similar), which does work,
> > > but can be overkill.  This commit therefore instead calls for _bh variants
> > > (spin_lock_bh() or similar), while noting that _irq does work.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Should this by Suggested-by?
>
> I wrote it and Jiunn converted my change to .rst, so I believe that
> this is correct as is.

Great.

thanks,
-- Shuah