Hello, On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 09:01:31AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > I think that would be very useful, it seems sort of half-assed if the caller > side has to provide serialization for that.
Yeah, the thing is init/exit are usually caller synchronized but percpu_rwsem's kill/reinit are more of mode-switching operations which can be performed concurrently during operation so I think the right thing to do here is making it synchronize itself. Will spin a patch. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/