linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [0/11] SYSCTL: Use RCU to avoid races with string sysctls

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Message-ID: <b6fcc0a0912202357g269722f2ra2cb136396e8186e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:57:32 +0200
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	andi@...stfloor.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [0/11] SYSCTL: Use RCU to avoid races with string sysctls

> new = alloc_rcu_string(MAX_GLOBAL_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);

I think adding failure mode is not right.
We can get away with per-sysctl-string spinlock and not introduce yet
another API.
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