Re: [PATCH v3 rcu 08/11] arch/s390: Add ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS Kconfig option

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Oct 20 2022 - 12:35:27 EST


On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:27:37AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 09:23:49AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 07:16:44AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > > Am 20.10.22 um 00:58 schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
> > > > The s390 architecture uses either a cmpxchg loop (old systems)
> > > > or the laa add-to-memory instruction (new systems) to implement
> > > > this_cpu_add(), both of which are NMI safe. This means that the old
> > > > and more-efficient srcu_read_lock() may be used in NMI context, without
> > > > the need for srcu_read_lock_nmisafe(). Therefore, add the new Kconfig
> > > > option ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS to arch/arm64/Kconfig, which will
> > > s390 ?
>
> Ah, this typo is what Christian pointed out; missed that.
>
> > > > cause NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE to be deselected, thus preserving the current
> > > > srcu_read_lock() behavior.
> > > >
> > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220910221947.171557773@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > > >
> > > > Suggested-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ...
> > > > ---
> > > > arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > Not sure what Christian was trying to say with his empty reply :)
> > In any case:
> > Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I will apply the fix and the ack on my next rebase, thank you both!

Thanx, Paul