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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rculist_nulls.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h b/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h index 2ae13714828..1c33dd7da4a 100644 --- a/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h +++ b/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h @@ -105,9 +105,14 @@ static inline void hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu(struct hlist_nulls_node *n, * @head: the head for your list. * @member: the name of the hlist_nulls_node within the struct. * + * The barrier() is needed to make sure compiler doesn't cache first element [1], + * as this loop can be restarted [2] + * [1] Documentation/atomic_ops.txt around line 114 + * [2] Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt around line 146 */ #define hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu(tpos, pos, head, member) \ - for (pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_first_rcu(head)); \ + for (({barrier();}), \ + pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_first_rcu(head)); \ (!is_a_nulls(pos)) && \ ({ tpos = hlist_nulls_entry(pos, typeof(*tpos), member); 1; }); \ pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_next_rcu(pos))) |