On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:34:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 11:18 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >  static void rcu_report_qs_rsp(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long flags)
> >         __releases(rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock)
> >  {
> > +       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock, flags);
> > +       wake_up(&rsp->gp_wq);  /* Memory barrier implied by wake_up() path. 
> > */
> >  } 
> 
> Could you now also clean up the locking so that the caller releases this
> lock?
> 
> I so dislike asymmetric locking like that..

Or I could inline the whole thing at the two callsites...

                                                        Thanx, Paul

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