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| author | Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> | 2006-07-10 04:44:06 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-07-10 13:24:15 -0700 |
| commit | 82a854ec4f46c5fbef11b06bb49078ecc5784a2d (patch) | |
| tree | c0a04ec612047065d94d1372871eecdb6401d287 /Documentation | |
| parent | 1454aed92b6b89cb1fbe3cbecd8ceaa7a122f3b7 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-82a854ec4f46c5fbef11b06bb49078ecc5784a2d.tar.gz lwn-82a854ec4f46c5fbef11b06bb49078ecc5784a2d.zip | |
[PATCH] RCU Documentation fix
Updater should use _rcu variant of list_del().
Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index 4f41a60e5111..318df44259b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -687,8 +687,9 @@ diff shows how closely related RCU and reader-writer locking can be. + 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); @@ -736,7 +737,7 @@ Or, for those who prefer a side-by-side listing: 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); |