Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: IPC: sleeping function called ...

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:13:37 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 02:24:51PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:34:00 -0700 Andrew Morton
> > <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, it was an optimisation.  spin_lock() implies rcu_read_lock().  That's
> > > a bit dirty and we might choose to not do that.
> > 
> > Not true for the preemptible-rcu work. All such sites should be fixed,
> > or at the very least heavily annotated.
> 
> What he said!!!
> 

What he said!

How are you going to find all such sites?
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