On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 03:20:57PM -0400, bdegr...@codeaurora.org wrote: > Thinking about this, as the reader/writer code has no known "abuse" > case, I'll remove it from the patchset, then provide a v2 patchset > with a detailed explanation for the lockref problem using the commits > you provided as an example, as well as performance consideration.
Please, fix lockref in those patches. Touching the spinlock because lockref does something dubious really is the wrong thing.