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

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Message-ID: <20130912063840.GB11583@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:38:40 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, josh@...htriplett.org,
	niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	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?


* Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> > So my NAK stands: you are still in denial, you should stop the silly 
> > arguing and you should stop wasting maintainer time. You need to 
> > address PeterZ's review feedback and fix the bugs in your patches, 
> > ASAP.
> 
> You are NAKing my patches that add the preempt checks? Now I am 
> confused. I thought you wanted those?

My NAK of the original patches stands until the debug checks are working 
and are put up for a merge. You were talking nonsense all around in this 
thread and I simply don't trust your promise, but I'll obviously trust a 
queued up fix.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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