Hi, On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > AFAICT it's called via rcu, does that mean anything released via rcu has > > to be protected against interrupts? > > RCU means softirq, probably we can use spin_lock_bh() to protect against > deadlock. > But free_uid() may be called with irqs disabled, we can't use > local_bh_enable() > in such a case. Eek, I wasn't really aware of it and this would really suck. We should move things out of the interrupt context and not into it. :( I would call it a bug in the rcu system. bye, Roman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
