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Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook

From Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook
Date 2016-02-09 17:20 +0100
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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 16:04:42 +0000
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> wrote:
 
> > The patch looks good to me. Do you want to take it through your tree?
> > 
> > It benefits mainline too as a rcu_read_lock() is more efficient than
> > rwlocks. Although I will say this is a slow path anyway.  
> 
> I was thinking that Catalin would queue it for 4.6 in the arm64 tree,
> since that's probably easiest in case any unlikely conflicts crop up.

Oh, OK.

That's fine. I just didn't want you to think that the RT folks were
going to pull it in for mainline.

-- Steve

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[PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> - 2016-02-09 00:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2016-02-09 10:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-02-09 16:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-09 16:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2016-02-09 17:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-09 17:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-02-09 17:30 +0100

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