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Message-ID: <20231116150650.GF18748@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:06:50 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rxrpc_find_service_conn_rcu: use read_seqbegin() rather
 than read_seqbegin_or_lock()

On 11/16, David Howells wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > > > 	- the usage of read_seqbegin_or_lock/need_seqretry in
> > > > 	  this code makes no sense because read_seqlock_excl()
> > > > 	  is not possible
> > >
> > > Not exactly.  I think it should take a lock on the second pass.
> >
> > OK, then how about the patch below?
>
> That seems to work.

OK, I'll send V2 tomorrow.

Should I change fs/afs the same way?

Oleg.


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