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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-10-11 23:39:35 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-10-11 23:39:35 +0400 |
| commit | 56c5d900dbb8e042bfad035d18433476931d8f93 (patch) | |
| tree | 00b793965beeef10db03e0ff021d2d965c410759 /Documentation/RCU | |
| parent | 4dd95b63ae25c5cad6986829b5e8788e9faa0330 (diff) | |
| parent | ead9d23d803ea3a73766c3cb27bf7563ac8d7266 (diff) | |
| download | linux-56c5d900dbb8e042bfad035d18433476931d8f93.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
sound/core/memalloc.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index cf5562cbe356..6e253407b3dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! number of updates per grace period. 9. All RCU list-traversal primitives, which include - rcu_dereference(), list_for_each_rcu(), list_for_each_entry_rcu(), + rcu_dereference(), list_for_each_entry_rcu(), list_for_each_continue_rcu(), and list_for_each_safe_rcu(), must be either within an RCU read-side critical section or must be protected by appropriate update-side locks. RCU diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt index 451de2ad8329..4202ad093130 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ release_referenced() delete() } If this list/array is made lock free using RCU as in changing the -write_lock() in add() and delete() to spin_lock and changing read_lock -in search_and_reference to rcu_read_lock(), the atomic_get in -search_and_reference could potentially hold reference to an element which +write_lock() in add() and delete() to spin_lock() and changing read_lock() +in search_and_reference() to rcu_read_lock(), the atomic_inc() in +search_and_reference() could potentially hold reference to an element which has already been deleted from the list/array. Use atomic_inc_not_zero() in this scenario as follows: @@ -40,20 +40,20 @@ add() search_and_reference() { { alloc_object rcu_read_lock(); ... search_for_element - atomic_set(&el->rc, 1); if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&el->rc)) { - write_lock(&list_lock); rcu_read_unlock(); + atomic_set(&el->rc, 1); if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&el->rc)) { + spin_lock(&list_lock); rcu_read_unlock(); return FAIL; add_element } ... ... - write_unlock(&list_lock); rcu_read_unlock(); + spin_unlock(&list_lock); rcu_read_unlock(); } } 3. 4. release_referenced() delete() { { - ... write_lock(&list_lock); + ... spin_lock(&list_lock); if (atomic_dec_and_test(&el->rc)) ... call_rcu(&el->head, el_free); delete_element - ... write_unlock(&list_lock); + ... spin_unlock(&list_lock); } ... if (atomic_dec_and_test(&el->rc)) call_rcu(&el->head, el_free); diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index e04d643a9f57..96170824a717 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -786,8 +786,6 @@ RCU pointer/list traversal: list_for_each_entry_rcu hlist_for_each_entry_rcu - list_for_each_rcu (to be deprecated in favor of - list_for_each_entry_rcu) list_for_each_continue_rcu (to be deprecated in favor of new list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu) |