From: Urs Thuermann Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:44:06 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] RCU Documentation fix X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc2~233 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82a854ec4f46c5fbef11b06bb49078ecc5784a2d;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] RCU Documentation fix Updater should use _rcu variant of list_del(). Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index 4f41a60e51..318df44259 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -687,8 +687,9 @@ diff shows how closely related RCU and reader-writer locking can be. + spin_lock(&listmutex); list_for_each_entry(p, head, lp) { if (p->key == key) { - list_del(&p->list); + - list_del(&p->list); - write_unlock(&listmutex); + + list_del_rcu(&p->list); + spin_unlock(&listmutex); + synchronize_rcu(); kfree(p); @@ -736,7 +737,7 @@ Or, for those who prefer a side-by-side listing: 5 write_lock(&listmutex); 5 spin_lock(&listmutex); 6 list_for_each_entry(p, head, lp) { 6 list_for_each_entry(p, head, lp) { 7 if (p->key == key) { 7 if (p->key == key) { - 8 list_del(&p->list); 8 list_del(&p->list); + 8 list_del(&p->list); 8 list_del_rcu(&p->list); 9 write_unlock(&listmutex); 9 spin_unlock(&listmutex); 10 synchronize_rcu(); 10 kfree(p); 11 kfree(p);