netdev - Re: [RFC 1/6] rcu: Add support for consolidated-RCU reader checking

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Date:   Mon, 3 Jun 2019 10:01:28 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
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        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/6] rcu: Add support for consolidated-RCU reader checking

On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 06:27:33PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> +#define list_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, head, member, cond...)		\
> +	if (COUNT_VARGS(cond) != 0) {					\
> +		__list_check_rcu_cond(0, ## cond);			\
> +	} else {							\
> +		__list_check_rcu();					\
> +	}								\
> +	for (pos = list_entry_rcu((head)->next, typeof(*pos), member);	\
> +		&pos->member != (head);					\
>  		pos = list_entry_rcu(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member))
>  
>  /**
> @@ -621,7 +648,12 @@ static inline void hlist_add_behind_rcu(struct hlist_node *n,
>   * the _rcu list-mutation primitives such as hlist_add_head_rcu()
>   * as long as the traversal is guarded by rcu_read_lock().
>   */
> +#define hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, head, member, cond...)		\
> +	if (COUNT_VARGS(cond) != 0) {					\
> +		__list_check_rcu_cond(0, ## cond);			\
> +	} else {							\
> +		__list_check_rcu();					\
> +	}								\
>  	for (pos = hlist_entry_safe (rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_first_rcu(head)),\
>  			typeof(*(pos)), member);			\
>  		pos;							\


This breaks code like:

	if (...)
		list_for_each_entry_rcu(...);

as they are no longer a single statement. You'll have to frob it into
the initializer part of the for statement.