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Date:   Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:04:25 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To:     Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/41] drivers/ipmi: Replace
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On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 09:38:55AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 11/11/18 1:43 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >Now that synchronize_rcu() waits for preempt-disable regions of code
> >as well as RCU read-side critical sections, synchronize_sched() can be
> >replaced by synchronize_rcu().  This commit therefore makes this change.
> 
> Assuming the above is true, this looks fine to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Corey MInyard <cminyard@mvista.com>

Thank you!

> Or I can take it in my tree, either way.

I will carry it unless/until I send it upstream (this coming merge
window) or I see it already upstream.

So your choice.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

> -corey
> 
> 
> >Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
> >Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
> >Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> >Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >Cc: <openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>
> >---
> >  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> >index 677618e6f1f7..dc8603d34320 100644
> >--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> >+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
> >@@ -2187,7 +2187,7 @@ static void shutdown_smi(void *send_info)
> >  	 * handlers might have been running before we freed the
> >  	 * interrupt.
> >  	 */
> >-	synchronize_sched();
> >+	synchronize_rcu();
> >  	/*
> >  	 * Timeouts are stopped, now make sure the interrupts are off
> 
>