On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 03:42:33PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Ahhh, interesting, so it turns out you can't do a number of things
> with a read_lock_bh held, because it increases the softirq count.
> Mystery solved.
You must not do anything that can sleep (like taking a mutex) while
holding a rwlock (even for reading) as someone else could call
write_lock() on the same rwlock on the same CPU in the meantime and
would end up spinning indefinitely while waiting for you to release it.
Michal Kubecek
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