Re: [TOMOYO 05/15](repost) Domain transition handler functions.

Tetsuo Handa
2007-10-03T13:04:25Z

James Morris wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that the singly linked list idea has been rejected a few
> times. Just use the existing API.
Too bad...

Well, is there a way to avoid read_lock when reading list?

Currently, TOMOYO Linux avoids read_lock, on the assumption that
(1) First, ptr->next is initialized with NULL.
(2) Later, ptr->next is assigned non-NULL address.
(3) Assigning to ptr->next is done atomically.

Regards.