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

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Feb 09 2016 - 10:08:09 EST


On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:54:26 +0000
Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:


> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

Will,

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.

-- Steve