On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:42:11AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > Instead of dropping percpu-rwsem, I was thinking we could instead look > for opportunities to convert new users, for instance shinkers, where the > write lock is also taken just for register and unregister purposes, > similar to uprobes.
Another 'obvious' one would be the cpu hotplug lock. That's basically the same locking primitive with just a wee little difference. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
