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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, the lock_is_read_held variable is bool, so that a reader sets it to true just after lock acquisition and then to false just before lock release. This works in a rough statistical sense, but can result in false negatives just after one of a pair of concurrent readers has released the lock. This approach does have low overhead, but at the expense of the setting to true potentially never leaving the reader's store buffer, thus resulting in an unconditional false negative. This commit therefore converts this variable to atomic_t and makes the reader use atomic_inc() just after acquisition and atomic_dec() just before release. This does increase overhead, but this increase is negligible compared to the 10-microsecond lock hold time. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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