linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 rcu 0/8] NMI-safe SRCU reader API

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Date:   Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:01:36 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, tglx@...utronix.de, pmladek@...e.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 rcu 0/8] NMI-safe SRCU reader API

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 04:45:47PM +0206, John Ogness wrote:
> On 2022-10-27, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org> wrote:
> > The warning is claiming that this srcu_struct was passed to
> > srcu_read_lock() at some point and is now being passed to
> > srcu_read_lock_nmisafe().
> 
> Indeed, I found some code that was not using my wrappers. Thanks. Living
> proof that it was a good idea to add the checks. ;-)

Glad that they helped, and a big "thank you!" to Frederic!

							Thanx, Paul