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Paul E. McKenney
78b0e0e9b2 RCU, rculist.h: fix list iterators
RCU list iterators: should prefetch ever be optimised out with no
side-effects, the current version will lose the barrier completely.

Pointed-out-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-19 10:03:39 +02:00
Franck Bui-Huu
10aa9d2cf9 rculist.h: use the rcu API
Make almost all list mutation primitives use rcu_assign_pointer().

The main point of this being readability improvement.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-19 10:03:38 +02:00
Franck Bui-Huu
82524746c2 rcu: split list.h and move rcu-protected lists into rculist.h
Move rcu-protected lists from list.h into a new header file rculist.h.

This is done because list are a very used primitive structure all over the
kernel and it's currently impossible to include other header files in this
list.h without creating some circular dependencies.

For example, list.h implements rcu-protected list and uses rcu_dereference()
without including rcupdate.h.  It actually compiles because users of
rcu_dereference() are macros.  Others RCU functions could be used too but
aren't probably because of this.

Therefore this patch creates rculist.h which includes rcupdates without to
many changes/troubles.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-05-19 10:01:37 +02:00