Re: [RFC 1/6] rcu: Add support for consolidated-RCU reader checking

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jun 03 2019 - 04:07:22 EST


On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 06:27:33PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> +#define list_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, head, member, cond...) \
> + if (COUNT_VARGS(cond) != 0) { \
> + __list_check_rcu_cond(0, ## cond); \
> + } else { \
> + __list_check_rcu(); \
> + } \
> + for (pos = list_entry_rcu((head)->next, typeof(*pos), member); \
> + &pos->member != (head); \
> pos = list_entry_rcu(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member))
>
> /**
> @@ -621,7 +648,12 @@ static inline void hlist_add_behind_rcu(struct hlist_node *n,
> * the _rcu list-mutation primitives such as hlist_add_head_rcu()
> * as long as the traversal is guarded by rcu_read_lock().
> */
> +#define hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, head, member, cond...) \
> + if (COUNT_VARGS(cond) != 0) { \
> + __list_check_rcu_cond(0, ## cond); \
> + } else { \
> + __list_check_rcu(); \
> + } \
> for (pos = hlist_entry_safe (rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_first_rcu(head)),\
> typeof(*(pos)), member); \
> pos; \


This breaks code like:

if (...)
list_for_each_entry_rcu(...);

as they are no longer a single statement. You'll have to frob it into
the initializer part of the for statement.