3 Jul
2023
3 Jul
'23
7:52 p.m.
On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 18:51:22 +0000 Ajay Kaher akaher@vmware.com wrote:
We can also look to see if we can implement this with RCU. What exactly is this rwsem protecting?
- struct eventfs_file holds the meta-data for file or dir.
https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/blob/dfe0dc15a73261ed83cdc728e43f4b3d...
- eventfs_rwsem is supposed to protect the 'link-list which is made of struct eventfs_file
' and elements of struct eventfs_file.
RCU is usually the perfect solution for protecting link lists though. I'll take a look at this when I get back to work.
-- Steve