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Subject[PATCH] RCU Documentation
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Updater should use _rcu variant of list_del().


urs



Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>

--- linux-2.6.17/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt.orig
+++ linux-2.6.17/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -677,8 +677,9 @@
+ spin_lock(&listmutex);
list_for_each_entry(p, head, lp) {
if (p->key == key) {
- list_del(&p->list);
+ - list_del(&p->list);
- write_unlock(&listmutex);
+ + list_del_rcu(&p->list);
+ spin_unlock(&listmutex);
+ synchronize_rcu();
kfree(p);
@@ -726,7 +727,7 @@
5 write_lock(&listmutex); 5 spin_lock(&listmutex);
6 list_for_each_entry(p, head, lp) { 6 list_for_each_entry(p, head, lp) {
7 if (p->key == key) { 7 if (p->key == key) {
- 8 list_del(&p->list); 8 list_del(&p->list);
+ 8 list_del(&p->list); 8 list_del_rcu(&p->list);
9 write_unlock(&listmutex); 9 spin_unlock(&listmutex);
10 synchronize_rcu();
10 kfree(p); 11 kfree(p);
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