linux-kernel - Re: Mysterious CFQ crash and RCU

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Date:	Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:50:17 +0200
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Mysterious CFQ crash and RCU

On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 22:07 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> And please accept my apologies for being so slow to get to it.

Thanks, but it was just a week (ie, quite a quick response by my
standards).

> Looks healthy to me...

How should I understand that? Something like: "As far as this hlist is
used with RCU everything seems OK. Perhaps something is messing with the
entries of this hlist outside of RCU. Perhaps additional locking is
needed."


Paul Bolle

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