[PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook
Will Deacon
will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Feb 9 08:04:42 PST 2016
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:07:58AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:54:26 +0000
> Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
>
> Will,
Hi Steve,
> The patch looks good to me. Do you want to take it through your tree?
>
> It benefits mainline too as a rcu_read_lock() is more efficient than
> rwlocks. Although I will say this is a slow path anyway.
I was thinking that Catalin would queue it for 4.6 in the arm64 tree,
since that's probably easiest in case any unlikely conflicts crop up.
Will
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