linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section?

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Message-ID: <20130911114916.4a53f9f0@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:49:16 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, darren@...art.com,
	sbw@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side critical
 section?

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 08:23:31 -0700
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> C'mon, Steven!  I did say "after treating injuries"!  In the opinion
> of the surgeon, the only option was to ampute what was left of either
> the _cpu(), _task(), _thread(), or _you().  Heck, the damage was so
> severe that we couldn't even tell which one it was!

What a morbid thought. The possibility that "_you" was amputated.

-- Steve
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