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authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>2016-01-20 15:00:42 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-20 17:09:18 -0800
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rbtree: use READ_ONCE in RB_EMPTY_ROOT
With commit d72da4a4d97 ("rbtree: Make lockless searches non-fatal") our rbtrees provide weak guarantees that allows us to do lockless (and very speculative) reads of the tree. Such readers cannot see partial stores on nodes, ie left/right as well as root. As such, similar to the WRITE_ONCE semantics when doing rotations, use READ_ONCE when checking the root node in RB_EMPTY_ROOT. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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