[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/4] RCU-protected list updates for 4.2

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue May 12 2015 - 18:46:17 EST


Hello!

This series contains a few updates to RCU-protected lists.

1. Add RCU annotation to suppress sparse warnings in
hlist_for_each_entry_from_rcu(), courtesy of Ying Xue.

2. Fix list_entry_rcu to read ptr with rcu_dereference_raw() to
save a load instruction, courtesy of Patrick Marlier.

3. Fix list_entry_rcu() usage in next_active_rdev(), courtesy
of Patrick Marlier.

4. Fix list_entry_rcu() usage in nf_hook_slow(), courtesy of
Patrick Marlier.

Thanx, Paul

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b/drivers/md/bitmap.c | 2 +-
b/include/linux/rculist.h | 9 +++------
b/net/netfilter/core.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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