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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-08-01 14:11:05 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-08-15 17:03:06 +0200
commit34d7c2b38d124219b7034356716e3455c439acd3 (patch)
tree7e3a91439a288ae15c3baac5ad17710931d08324
parentff9cf2ce7afe76435d66c898cc9dacaa68e79d41 (diff)
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rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()
All of the in-tree uses of list_for_each_rcu() have been converted to list_for_each_entry_rcu(), so list_for_each_rcu() can now be removed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rculist.h14
3 files changed, 1 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
index cf5562cbe356..6e253407b3dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
number of updates per grace period.
9. All RCU list-traversal primitives, which include
- rcu_dereference(), list_for_each_rcu(), list_for_each_entry_rcu(),
+ rcu_dereference(), list_for_each_entry_rcu(),
list_for_each_continue_rcu(), and list_for_each_safe_rcu(),
must be either within an RCU read-side critical section or
must be protected by appropriate update-side locks. RCU
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index e04d643a9f57..96170824a717 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -786,8 +786,6 @@ RCU pointer/list traversal:
list_for_each_entry_rcu
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu
- list_for_each_rcu (to be deprecated in favor of
- list_for_each_entry_rcu)
list_for_each_continue_rcu (to be deprecated in favor of new
list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu)
diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h
index eb4443c7e05b..e649bd3f2c97 100644
--- a/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -198,20 +198,6 @@ static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
at->prev = last;
}
-/**
- * list_for_each_rcu - iterate over an rcu-protected list
- * @pos: the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor.
- * @head: the head for your list.
- *
- * This list-traversal primitive may safely run concurrently with
- * the _rcu list-mutation primitives such as list_add_rcu()
- * as long as the traversal is guarded by rcu_read_lock().
- */
-#define list_for_each_rcu(pos, head) \
- for (pos = rcu_dereference((head)->next); \
- prefetch(pos->next), pos != (head); \
- pos = rcu_dereference(pos->next))
-
#define __list_for_each_rcu(pos, head) \
for (pos = rcu_dereference((head)->next); \
pos != (head); \