Re: [PATCH] RCU Documentation

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:22:22PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote:
> Updater should use _rcu variant of list_del().
> 
> urs

Good catch!!!

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann <urs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.17/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt.orig
> +++ linux-2.6.17/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
> @@ -677,8 +677,9 @@
>  	+	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);
> @@ -726,7 +727,7 @@
>   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);
> -
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