Re: [PATCH 2/3] ftrace: use struct pid

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Dec 04 2008 - 07:56:32 EST


On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 04:42 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> > +static void clear_ftrace_pid_task(struct pid **pid)
> > +{
> > + struct task_struct *p;
> > +
> rcu_read_lock();
>
> > + do_each_pid_task(*pid, PIDTYPE_PID, p) {
> > + clear_tsk_trace_trace(p);
> > + } while_each_pid_task(*pid, PIDTYPE_PID, p);
> rcu_read_unlock()
>
> > + put_pid(*pid);
> > +
> > + *pid = NULL;
> > +}

Could we get away with sticking the rcu_read_{un}lock() inside those
macros? Those are going to get used in pretty high level code and we're
allowed to nest rcu_read_lock(). No danger of deadlocks or lock
inversions.

-- Dave

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