On Fri 2022-09-30 15:50:56, John Ogness wrote: > On 2022-09-30, Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com> wrote: > > Anyway, what about using the later added SRCU walk here? > > After all, this is exactly what RCU is for, isn't it? > > So I think a lot of the problems with this series is that SRCU is > introduced too late. We are debating things in patch 6 that are > irrelevant by patch 12.
> I will rework the series so that the changes come in the following > order: > > 1. provide an atomic console_is_enabled() > > 2. convert the list to SRCU > > 3. move all iterators from console_lock()/console_trylock() to SRCU > > Step 3 may result in console_lock()/console_trylock() calls disappearing > or relocating to where they are needed for non-list-synchronization > purposes. I agree that introding SRCU as early as possible would help. The current patchset converts the same code several times... Best Regards, Petr _______________________________________________ Kgdb-bugreport mailing list Kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kgdb-bugreport
