linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] suck some poison out of cgroups' linked lists

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Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:12:29 -0400
From:	ext Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@...ia.com>
Cc:	ext Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, menage@...gle.com,
	lizf@...fujitsu.com, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] suck some poison out of cgroups' linked lists

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 04:01:53PM +0200, Phil Carmody wrote:
> > > 2) Ensure that you never leave poison anywhere where you might want
> > > to use list_empty().
> > 
> > The correct way is to use list_del_init() if you want to do list_empty
> > checks later on.
> 
> I.e. (2). Glad I chose that one.

Yes - sorry didn't see the actual patches before.

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