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Message-ID: <20190722121441-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:15:22 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, aarcange@...hat.com,
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Subject: Re: RFC: call_rcu_outstanding (was Re: WARNING in __mmdrop)

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 01:04:48PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 08:52:35AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > So why then is there a problem?
> 
> I'm not sure there is a real problem, I thought Michael was just
> asking how to design with RCU in the case where the user controls the
> kfree_rcu??


Right it's all based on documentation saying we should worry :)

> Sounds like the answer is "don't worry about it" ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason

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