From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
arnd@arndb.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] hlist_add_tail_rcu disable sparse warning
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 05:47:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161205054406-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161128143919.GE3924@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 06:39:19AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 07:52:23PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> > Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 22:48:19 +0200
> >
> > > I would appreciate review to confirm the function doesn't
> > > do anything unsafe though.
> > >
> > > In particular, should this use __hlist_for_each_rcu instead?
> > > I note that __hlist_for_each_rcu does rcu_dereference
> > > internally, which is missing here.
> >
> > I personally think it should use __hlist_for_each_rcu, otherwise
> > nothing expresses the rcu-ness of the operation.
>
> I like Dave's suggestion. Michael, does that change work for you?
>
> Thanx, Paul
I think we should change __hlist_for_each_rcu to skip rcu_dereference
though then, since it would be called outside any rcu read size critical
sections here.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-05 3:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 20:48 [PATCH RFC] hlist_add_tail_rcu disable sparse warning Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-11-26 0:52 ` David Miller
2016-11-28 14:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2016-11-28 15:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-05 3:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2016-12-05 3:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-12-05 19:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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