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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2013-07-04 23:11:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2013-07-04 23:11:22 +0200 |
| commit | 2b0f89317e99735bbf32eaede81f707f98ab1b5e (patch) | |
| tree | 16daa236e21876b11f1c0b9256cd4046aadba020 /include/linux/rculist_nulls.h | |
| parent | 07bd1172902e782f288e4d44b1fde7dec0f08b6f (diff) | |
| parent | fa18f7bde3ad4568d1d343b60d963bfbd8dc3991 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'timers/posix-cpu-timers-for-tglx' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into timers/core
Frederic sayed: "Most of these patches have been hanging around for
several month now, in -mmotm for a significant chunk. They already
missed a few releases."
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rculist_nulls.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rculist_nulls.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h b/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h index 2ae13714828b..1c33dd7da4a7 100644 --- a/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h +++ b/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h @@ -105,9 +105,14 @@ static inline void hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu(struct hlist_nulls_node *n, * @head: the head for your list. * @member: the name of the hlist_nulls_node within the struct. * + * The barrier() is needed to make sure compiler doesn't cache first element [1], + * as this loop can be restarted [2] + * [1] Documentation/atomic_ops.txt around line 114 + * [2] Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt around line 146 */ #define hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu(tpos, pos, head, member) \ - for (pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_first_rcu(head)); \ + for (({barrier();}), \ + pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_first_rcu(head)); \ (!is_a_nulls(pos)) && \ ({ tpos = hlist_nulls_entry(pos, typeof(*tpos), member); 1; }); \ pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_next_rcu(pos))) |