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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-08-23 09:40:42 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-09-23 09:13:49 -0700
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rcu: Make list_splice_init_rcu() account for RCU readers
The list_splice_init_rcu() function allows a list visible to RCU readers to be spliced into another list visible to RCU readers. This is OK, except for the use of INIT_LIST_HEAD(), which does pointer updates without doing anything to make those updates safe for concurrent readers. Of course, most of the time INIT_LIST_HEAD() is being used in reader-free contexts, such as initialization or cleanup, so it is OK for it to update pointers in an unsafe-for-RCU-readers manner. This commit therefore creates an INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU() that uses ACCESS_ONCE() to make the updates reader-safe. The reason that we can use ACCESS_ONCE() instead of the more typical rcu_assign_pointer() is that list_splice_init_rcu() is updating the pointers to reference something that is already visible to readers, so that there is no problem with pre-initialized values. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rculist.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rculist.h23
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h
index 4106721c4e5e..45a0a9e81478 100644
--- a/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -19,6 +19,21 @@
*/
/*
+ * INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU - Initialize a list_head visible to RCU readers
+ * @list: list to be initialized
+ *
+ * You should instead use INIT_LIST_HEAD() for normal initialization and
+ * cleanup tasks, when readers have no access to the list being initialized.
+ * However, if the list being initialized is visible to readers, you
+ * need to keep the compiler from being too mischievous.
+ */
+static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU(struct list_head *list)
+{
+ ACCESS_ONCE(list->next) = list;
+ ACCESS_ONCE(list->prev) = list;
+}
+
+/*
* return the ->next pointer of a list_head in an rcu safe
* way, we must not access it directly
*/
@@ -191,9 +206,13 @@ static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
if (list_empty(list))
return;
- /* "first" and "last" tracking list, so initialize it. */
+ /*
+ * "first" and "last" tracking list, so initialize it. RCU readers
+ * have access to this list, so we must use INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU()
+ * instead of INIT_LIST_HEAD().
+ */
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(list);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU(list);
/*
* At this point, the list body still points to the source list.