On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:56:24AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So I think the theory is that crashes do happen, and that any RCU warning
> only
> matters to (usually) small race windows.
>
> So by the time a difficult crash truly happens, exactly in that race window,
> we'd
> have fixed the RCU warning long ago.
>
> I.e. the placement of the RCU warning isn't really relevant in the long run,
> as it
> should not trigger.
>
> In the short run it's probably more important to have it first, because if we
> have
> that RCU race then we don't know whether we can trust anything that happens
> after
> executing the (flawed) notifier chain.
>
> Does that logic make sense to you?
Yap, it does actually. Nice :)
Thanks!
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
--
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
