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Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 13:51:56 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
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"Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/15] rcu: Add PROVE_RCU_DELAY to provoke
difficult races
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 04:38:32PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 11:56 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
> > + udelay(10); /* Make preemption more probable. */
> cond_resched(); /* for extra fun? */
The additional fun could include "scheduling while atomic", so I will
pass. ;-)
(The problem is that __rcu_read_unlock() can be called with interrupts
disabled, among other things.)
Thanx, Paul
> > +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY */
>
>
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