linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] rcu: uninline rcu_lock_acquire() and rcu_lock

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Message-ID: <20140701164002.GA26950@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2014 18:40:02 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] rcu: uninline rcu_lock_acquire() and
	rcu_lock_release()

On 07/01, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 06:18:49PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > +static inline void __rcu_lock_acquire(struct lockdep_map *map, unsigned long ip)
> >  {
> > +	lock_acquire(map, 0, 0, 2, 0, NULL, ip);
> >  }
>
> > +extern void rcu_lock_acquire(void);
> > +extern void rcu_lock_release(void);
> > +extern void rcu_lock_acquire_bh(void);
> > +extern void rcu_lock_release_bh(void);
> > +extern void rcu_lock_acquire_sched(void);
> > +extern void rcu_lock_release_sched(void);
>
> > diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h
> > index a2783cb..5c06289 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/srcu.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/srcu.h
> > @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static inline int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp)
> >  {
> >  	int retval = __srcu_read_lock(sp);
> >
> > -	rcu_lock_acquire(&(sp)->dep_map);
> > +	__rcu_lock_acquire(&(sp)->dep_map, _THIS_IP_);
> >  	return retval;
> >  }
>
> Would an srcu_lock_acquire() not make sense here?
>
> In any case, not wrong per se, just a consistency thing that stood out.

Yes, I looked at this too...

But probably it would be better to just add __rcu_lock_acquire() into
__srcu_read_lock(), and kill that inline in srcu.h ?

Oleg.

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