On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/27, Michel Lespinasse wrote: >> >> +void lg_rwlock_local_read_lock(struct lgrwlock *lgrw) >> +{ >> + preempt_disable(); >> + >> + if (__this_cpu_read(*lgrw->local_refcnt) || >> + arch_spin_trylock(this_cpu_ptr(lgrw->lglock->lock))) { >> + __this_cpu_inc(*lgrw->local_refcnt); > > Please look at __this_cpu_generic_to_op(). You need this_cpu_inc() > to avoid the race with irs. The same for _read_unlock. Hmmm, I was thinking that this was safe because while interrupts might modify local_refcnt to acquire a nested read lock, they are expected to release that lock as well which would set local_refcnt back to its original value ??? -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html