netdev - Re: mmotm 2010-04-28

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Message-ID: <1272903293.2226.50.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Mon, 03 May 2010 18:14:53 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2010-04-28 - RCU whinges

Le lundi 03 mai 2010 à 08:43 -0700, Paul E. McKenney a écrit :

> Highly recommended.  ;-)
> 
> And thanks to you for your testing efforts and to Eric for the fixes!!!
> 

For this last one, I think you should push following patch Paul

Followup of commit 3120438ad6
(rcu: Disable lockdep checking in RCU list-traversal primitives)

Or we might introduce a hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh() macro...



diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h
index 004908b..b0c7e24 100644
--- a/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -435,10 +435,10 @@ static inline void hlist_add_after_rcu(struct hlist_node *prev,
  * @member:	the name of the hlist_node within the struct.
  */
 #define hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(tpos, pos, member)		\
-	for (pos = rcu_dereference((pos)->next);			\
+	for (pos = rcu_dereference_raw((pos)->next);			\
 	     pos && ({ prefetch(pos->next); 1; }) &&			\
 	     ({ tpos = hlist_entry(pos, typeof(*tpos), member); 1; });  \
-	     pos = rcu_dereference(pos->next))
+	     pos = rcu_dereference_raw(pos->next))
 
 
 #endif	/* __KERNEL__ */


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