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Message-ID: <20130228182011.GA4373@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:20:11 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 04/46] percpu_rwlock: Implement the core design of
	Per-CPU Reader-Writer Locks

On 02/28, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/28, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> > > On 02/27, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> > >>
> > >> +void lg_rwlock_local_read_lock(struct lgrwlock *lgrw)
> > >> +{
> > >> +       preempt_disable();
> > >> +
> > >> +       if (__this_cpu_read(*lgrw->local_refcnt) ||
> > >> +           arch_spin_trylock(this_cpu_ptr(lgrw->lglock->lock))) {
> > >> +               __this_cpu_inc(*lgrw->local_refcnt);
> > >
> > > Please look at __this_cpu_generic_to_op(). You need this_cpu_inc()
> > > to avoid the race with irs. The same for _read_unlock.
> >
> > Hmmm, I was thinking that this was safe because while interrupts might
> > modify local_refcnt to acquire a nested read lock, they are expected
> > to release that lock as well which would set local_refcnt back to its
> > original value ???
>
> Yes, yes, this is correct.
>
> I meant that (in general, x86 is fine) __this_cpu_inc() itself is not
> irq-safe. It simply does "pcp += 1".
>
> this_cpu_inc() is fine, _this_cpu_generic_to_op() does cli/sti around.

Just in case, it is not that I really understand why __this_cpu_inc() can
race with irq in this particular case (given that irq handler should
restore the counter).

So perhaps I am wrong again. The comments in include/linux/percpu.h look
confusing to me, and I simply know nothing about !x86 architectures. But
since, say, preempt_disable() doesn't do anything special then probably
__this_cpu_inc() is fine too.

In short: please ignore me ;)

Oleg.

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