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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-09-09 02:55:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-09-09 02:55:54 +0200 |
| commit | 9134d02bc0af4a8747d448d1f811ec5f8eb96df6 (patch) | |
| tree | 704c3e5dcc10f360815c4868a74711f82fb62e27 /Documentation/RCU | |
| parent | Merge branch 'dmaengine' into async-tx-next (diff) | |
| parent | Fix new incorrect error return from do_md_stop. (diff) | |
| download | linux-9134d02bc0af4a8747d448d1f811ec5f8eb96df6.tar.xz linux-9134d02bc0af4a8747d448d1f811ec5f8eb96df6.zip | |
Merge commit 'md/for-linus' into async-tx-next
Conflicts:
drivers/md/raid5.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt index 93cb28d05dcd..18f9651ff23d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt @@ -83,11 +83,12 @@ not detect it missed following items in original chain. obj = kmem_cache_alloc(...); lock_chain(); // typically a spin_lock() obj->key = key; -atomic_inc(&obj->refcnt); /* * we need to make sure obj->key is updated before obj->next + * or obj->refcnt */ smp_wmb(); +atomic_set(&obj->refcnt, 1); hlist_add_head_rcu(&obj->obj_node, list); unlock_chain(); // typically a spin_unlock() @@ -159,6 +160,10 @@ out: obj = kmem_cache_alloc(cachep); lock_chain(); // typically a spin_lock() obj->key = key; +/* + * changes to obj->key must be visible before refcnt one + */ +smp_wmb(); atomic_set(&obj->refcnt, 1); /* * insert obj in RCU way (readers might be traversing chain) |