linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] srcu: Create an SRCU-fast-updown API

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Message-ID: <aSW6sVkqWh2aGxlK@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:18:25 +0100
From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: rcu@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...a.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/16] srcu: Create an SRCU-fast-updown API

Le Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 12:32:14PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney a écrit :
> This commit creates an SRCU-fast-updown API, including
> DEFINE_SRCU_FAST_UPDOWN(), DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST_UPDOWN(),
> __init_srcu_struct_fast_updown(), init_srcu_struct_fast_updown(),
> srcu_read_lock_fast_updown(), srcu_read_unlock_fast_updown(),
> __srcu_read_lock_fast_updown(), and __srcu_read_unlock_fast_updown().
> 
> These are initially identical to their SRCU-fast counterparts, but both
> SRCU-fast and SRCU-fast-updown will be optimized in different directions
> by later commits.  SRCU-fast will lack any sort of srcu_down_read() and
> srcu_up_read() APIs, which will enable extremely efficient NMI safety.
> For its part, SRCU-fast-updown will not be NMI safe, which will enable
> reasonably efficient implementations of srcu_down_read_fast() and
> srcu_up_read_fast().

Doing a last round of reviews before sitting down on a pull request,
I think the changelog in this one should mention what are the expected
uses of SRCU-fast-updown, since the RCU-TASK-TRACE conversion bits aren't
there for this merge window yet.

Thanks.

-- 
Frederic Weisbecker
SUSE Labs