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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] rhashtable: use bit_spin_locks to protect hash bucket.
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:40:14 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s2t45v5.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190326052714.rqxuiqumjnw2qtb6@gondor.apana.org.au>

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On Tue, Mar 26 2019, Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 04:05:39PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
>>
>> +/*
>> + * If 'p' is a bucket head and might be locked:
>> + *   rht_ptr() returns the address without the lock bit.
>> + *   rht_ptr_locked() returns the address WITH the lock bit.
>> + *   rht_is_locked() tests if the lock bit is set.
>> + */
>> +static inline struct rhash_head __rcu *rht_ptr(const struct rhash_head *p)
>> +{
>> +	return (void *)(((unsigned long)p) & ~2UL);
>> +}
>
> My preference would be to turn rhash_head * into an opaque type
> that can only be dereferenced through rht_ptr.

I can try that.
Presumably the 'next' pointer in 'struct rhash_head' can still be a
normal pointer, but the buckets in the bucket_table would need to
opaque pointers.
Maybe pointers to some new undefined struct, which gets cast and masked
as appropriate?

I'll have a go and see how it looks.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-27  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-25  5:05 [PATCH 0/4] Convert rhashtable to use bitlocks NeilBrown
2019-03-25  5:05 ` [PATCH 1/4] rhashtable: use cmpxchg() in nested_table_alloc() NeilBrown
2019-03-25  5:05 ` [PATCH 3/4] rhashtable: use bit_spin_locks to protect hash bucket NeilBrown
2019-03-26  5:03   ` Herbert Xu
2019-03-26 15:36     ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-03-27  3:45       ` Herbert Xu
2019-03-26 22:35     ` NeilBrown
2019-03-27  3:45       ` Herbert Xu
2019-03-27 15:04       ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-03-26  5:27   ` Herbert Xu
2019-03-26 22:40     ` NeilBrown [this message]
2019-03-25  5:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] rhashtable: add lockdep tracking to bucket bit-spin-locks NeilBrown
2019-03-25  5:05 ` [PATCH 2/4] rhashtable: allow rht_bucket_var to return NULL NeilBrown
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-04-01 23:07 [PATCH 0/4 v2] Convert rhashtable to use bitlocks NeilBrown
2019-04-01 23:07 ` [PATCH 3/4] rhashtable: use bit_spin_locks to protect hash bucket NeilBrown
2019-04-02 10:11   ` David Laight
2019-04-02 21:10     ` NeilBrown
2019-04-03  9:26       ` David Laight
2019-04-04  0:13         ` NeilBrown
2019-04-08  2:34   ` Herbert Xu
2019-04-10 19:34   ` Guenter Roeck
2019-04-11  0:48     ` NeilBrown
2019-04-11  2:15       ` David Miller
2019-04-11  6:13       ` NeilBrown
2019-04-11  6:40         ` NeilBrown
2019-04-11 12:44           ` Guenter Roeck

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