Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] lib/dlock-list: Distributed and lock-protected lists

[Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>]

On 07/19/2016 01:00 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 01:39:40PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>
>> +struct dlock_list_head_percpu {
>> +	struct list_head list;
>> +	spinlock_t lock;
>> +};
>> +#define DLOCK_LIST_HEAD_PERCPU_INIT(name)			\
>> +	{							\
>> +		.list.prev =&name.list,			\
>> +		.list.next =&name.list,			\
>> +		.list.lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(name),	\
> What's .list.lock and how does that even compile?

Yes, it is a typo. This macro is not used. That is why there is no 
compilation error. I will remove it from the patch.

>> +extern bool dlock_list_next(struct dlock_list_head *dlist,
>> +			    struct dlock_list_iter *iter);
> Ugh...  Why not dlist_for_each_entry(), seeing that all users end up with
> the same boilerplate?

Right, I could make a dlock_list_for_each_entry() that encapsulate the 
boilerplate. I will work on that.

Thanks,
Longman