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Message-ID: <20141113104124.GA24379@casper.infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:41:24 +0000
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] rhashtable: Add parent argument to mutex_is_held

On 11/13/14 at 06:38pm, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:37:23AM +0000, Thomas Graf wrote:
> > On 11/13/14 at 06:11pm, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > Currently mutex_is_held can only test locks in the that are global
> > > since it takes no arguments.  This prevents rhashtable from being
> > > used in places where locks are lock, e.g., per-namespace locks.
> > > 
> > > This patch adds a parent field to mutex_is_held and rhashtable_params
> > > so that local locks can be used (and tested).
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> > 
> > Could you fix the documentation of rhashtable_init() as well?
> > 
> > [...]
> >  * struct rhashtable_params params = {
> >  *      .head_offset = offsetof(struct test_obj, node),
> >  *      .key_offset = offsetof(struct test_obj, key),
> >  *      .key_len = sizeof(int),
> >  *      .hashfn = arch_fast_hash,
> >  *      .mutex_is_held = &my_mutex_is_held,
> >  * };
> > [...]
> 
> Sorry I missed that.  Will do.

Never mind. You did fix it. I looked at the wrong patch.
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