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Message-ID: <ZxdPN6wT1LMyLaNL@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:07:35 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...a.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, andrii@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH rcu] srcu: Guarantee non-negative return value from
 srcu_read_lock()

On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 09:06:35AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> What is returned is an array index -- and SRCU is currently built using
> an array of size 2. Using larger arrays is conceivable (IIRC some
> versions of preemptible RCU used up to 4 or something).
> 
> So while the values 0,1 are possible inside bool, that does not reflect
> the nature of the numbers, which is an array index. Mapping that onto
> bool would be slightly confusing (and limit possible future extention of
> using larger arrays for SRCU).

Ok, make sense.  Maybe add this to the comment if we're updating іt.
But using an unsigned return value might still be useful.

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