* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:44:08 -0800 (PST) David Miller
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I bet this rcu_read_lock()-implies-preempt_disable() assumption has
> > spread into other areas of the tree as well.
>
> Me too. Although one expects that other holes will cause might_sleep
> or lockdep warnings pretty easily.
>
> Still, life is hard enough as it is. I think I'll shelve rcu-preempt
> pending resolution of this.
that was pretty much the only place in the whole kernel that got hit by
some rcu-preempt side-effect - and even this appears to show that it's a
real bug that was in hiding. So please dont shelve RCU-preempt for this
reason :-)
Ingo
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