linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

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Message-ID: <20080131024252.GF7185@v2.random>
Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:42:52 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	steiner@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	daniel.blueman@...drics.com, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate
	address ranges

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:08:14PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>  		hlist_for_each_entry_safe_rcu(mn, n, t,
				         ^^^^

>  					  &mm->mmu_notifier.head, hlist) {
>  			hlist_del_rcu(&mn->hlist);
				 ^^^^

_rcu can go away from both, if hlist_del_rcu can be called w/o locks.
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