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Subject: Re: [PATCH] rcutorture: Avoid problematic critical section nesting
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On 2021-08-19 11:20:35 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > This piece above, I don't understand. I had it running for a while and
> > it didn't explode. Let me try TREE01 for 30min without that piece.
>=20
> This might be historical.  There was a time when interrupts being
> disabled across rcu_read_unlock() meant that preemption had to have
> been disabled across the entire RCU read-side critical section.
>=20
> I am not seeing a purpose for it now, but I could easily be missing
> something, especially given my tenuous grasp of RT.

Okay. So the 30min test didn't trigger any warnings=E2=80=A6

> Either way, looking forward to the next version!

Good. So if you liked what you have seen then I'm going to resubmit the
above as a proper patch then.
Thanks!

> 							Thanx, Paul

Sebastian