Re: Can srcu_read_lock() be called from interrupt context?

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:56:56PM -0800, Yunhong Jiang wrote:
> Hi, Paul
> 	I have a question to the srcu_read_lock(). Can it be invoked on 
> interrupt context? According to 
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/kernel/rcu/srcu.c#L292 it can only be 
> called from process context, but according to 
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/srcu.h#L213 seems it's ok 
> from irq context only if it matches with the srcu_read_unlock. Can you 
> please give some hints?

Adding Lai Jianshan for his thoughts.

I believe that srcu.h is correct, at least assuming that interrupts do
not nest too deeply.  (If they were to nest four billion deep, then the
->seq[] counter could overflow, defeating the checks, but the CPU stack
would have overflowed long before.)

Lai, am I missing anything here?

							Thanx, Paul

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