Hi On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 08:48:12PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: >> evdev->client_list is rcu-protected. There is no need to have a >> separate spinlock just for the list. Either one is good enough, so lets >> drop the spinlock. >> >> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <[email protected]> >> --- >> Hi >> >> I stumbled across this one when doing some evdev reviews. Maybe I'm missing >> something obvious and I should stop coding on Sundays. But the RCU-protection >> should be enough here, right? > > RCU protection is for traversing list only, writes (as is adding and removing > elements from client_list) still have to be mutually exclusive.
Oh, you mean to protect against concurrent writes? Right, but we could just use evdev->mutex for that. I mean all paths that call attach_client() or detach_client() already lock evdev->mutex at some point. It would allow us to get rid of the lock. Thanks David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
