On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:32:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 11:18 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > +static int rcu_gp_kthread(void *arg)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > + struct rcu_data *rdp;
> > + struct rcu_node *rnp;
> > + struct rcu_state *rsp = arg;
> > +
> > + for (;;) {
> > +
> > + /* Handle grace-period start. */
> > + rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);
> > + for (;;) {
> > + wait_event_interruptible(rsp->gp_wq, rsp->gp_flags);
> > + if (rsp->gp_flags)
> > + break;
> > + flush_signals(current);
> > + }
> > + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
>
> You're in a kthread, it should be impossible for IRQs to be disabled
> here, no? Similar for most (all) other sites in this function.
>
> Using the unconditional IRQ disable/enable is generally faster.
I suppose I could see my way to using raw_spin_lock_irq() here. ;-)
Thanx, Paul
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