Re: [GIT PULL tip/core/rcu] RCU commits for v5.9

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 09:02:53PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2020-07-14 11:27:32 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > I believe that Ulad and Joel are working on an update.
> 
> I expressed multiple times that I am unhappy with the raw_spinlock_t
> which both want to keep. It is important to be future proof but at the
> same time I am not sure if they know how many in-hardirq kmalloc() or
> kfree() invocation we have as of today in PREEMPT_RT.
> I also had a patch in my series to keep the lock/unlock path symmetrical
> and it I think that I the only one that is missing it.

Are you good with giving Ulad a few days to produce his patch?

We do have at least a week or two before the merge window opens,
after all.

						Thanx, Paul