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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add a list for custom page fault handlers.
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:03:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1201467811.6149.0.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080127185238.4bcac54b@daedalus.pq.iki.fi>


On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 18:52 +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote:

> +void unregister_page_fault_handler(struct pf_handler *old_pfh)
> +{
> +	might_sleep();
> +	spin_lock(&pf_handlers_writer);
> +	hlist_del_rcu(&old_pfh->hlist);
> +	spin_unlock(&pf_handlers_writer);
> +	synchronize_rcu();
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_page_fault_handler);

Could you remove that sync_rcu() call and put in the comments that the
calling function is to take care of proper freeing.

sync_rcu() is a _very_ expensive call, and oft time it is not needed in
favour of call_rcu().



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-27 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-27 16:52 Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-27 17:55 ` [RFC PATCH] x86: mmiotrace - trace memory mapped IO Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-30 22:39   ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-27 19:29 ` [PATCH] x86: Add a list for custom page fault handlers Ingo Molnar
2008-01-27 21:03 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-01-30  2:28 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-30  2:34   ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-30 18:08     ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-31 15:07       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-31 16:02         ` [PATCH v2] " Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-31 16:15           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-03  6:55             ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-03  7:03               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-03 21:40                 ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-05 20:28                 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86 mmiotrace: use lookup_address() Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-05 20:30                   ` [PATCH 2/4] x86 mmiotrace: fix relay-buffer-full flag for SMP Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-05 20:44                     ` Eric Dumazet
2008-02-05 21:14                       ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-05 21:35                         ` Eric Dumazet
2008-02-09 17:53                           ` [PATCH] x86 mmiotrace: Use percpu instead of arrays Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-05 20:31                   ` [PATCH 3/4] x86 mmiotrace: comment about user space ABI Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-05 20:39                   ` [PATCH 4/4] x86 mmiotrace: move files into arch/x86/mm/ Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-06  3:02                     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-09 11:21                       ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-07 12:53                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-07 12:56                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-09 17:52                         ` [RFC PATCH] x86: explicit call to mmiotrace in do_page_fault() Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-09 18:01                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-09 18:23                             ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-09 18:56                               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-09 19:11                                 ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-09 19:19                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-09 18:39                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-09 18:39                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-10 18:05                             ` [RFC PATCH v2] " Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-11  2:12                               ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-11 18:04                                 ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-02-06  5:00                   ` [PATCH 1/4] x86 mmiotrace: use lookup_address() Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-07 12:52                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-31 16:16           ` [RFC PATCH v2] x86: mmiotrace - trace memory mapped IO Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-31 16:29             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-03  7:21               ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-30 18:20 ` [PATCH] x86: Add a list for custom page fault handlers Arjan van de Ven

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