| From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | [RFC PATCH 05/21] list: Comment missing WRITE_ONCE() in __list_del() | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:36:27 +0000 |
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Although __list_del() is called from the RCU list implementation, it omits WRITE_ONCE() when updating the 'prev' pointer for the 'next' node. This is reasonable because concurrent RCU readers only access the 'next' pointers.
Although it's obvious after reading the code, add a comment.
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> --- include/linux/list.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h index 4d9f5f9ed1a8..ec1f780d1449 100644 --- a/include/linux/list.h +++ b/include/linux/list.h @@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static inline void list_add_tail(struct list_head *new, struct list_head *head) */ static inline void __list_del(struct list_head * prev, struct list_head * next) { + /* RCU readers don't read the 'prev' pointer */ next->prev = prev; WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, next); } -- 2.20.1
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