[PATCH] arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Tue Feb 9 08:08:15 PST 2016


On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 16:04:42 +0000
Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com> wrote:
 
> > 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.

Oh, OK.

That's fine. I just didn't want you to think that the RT folks were
going to pull it in for mainline.

-- Steve



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