Re: Confused about hlist_unhashed_lockless()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Fri Jan 31 2020 - 16:04:51 EST


On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 12:53 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 10:52:46AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 10:48 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > This is nice, now with have data_race()
> > >
> > > Remember these patches were sent 2 months ago, at a time we were
> > > trying to sort out things.
> > >
> > > data_race() was merged a few days ago.
> >
> > Well, actually data_race() is not there yet anyway.
> >
> > Is it really scheduled for 5.7 kernel ?
>
> Right now, yes. Would it make sense to separate it out and push it
> into the current merge window?


That would be very nice, because we could start using it before KCSAN is merged.