Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:13:01 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add pci_walk_bus function to PCI core (nonrecursive) |
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:58:28PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I wonder if it's finally time to implement proper race free list > iterators in the kernel. Not that difficult... A small struct iterator > with a list head and the current elem pointer, and the "interated" list > containing the list itself, a list of iterators and a lock. Iterators > can then be "fixed" up on element removal with a fine grained lock on > list structure access.
Pat tried to do that with klist, but people seem to think it's still racy in some corner cases. Have you looked at them?
thanks,
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