16 Feb
2020
16 Feb
'20
4:17 p.m.
On Sunday, 16 February 2020 16:52:44 CET Madhuparna Bhowmik wrote: [...]
I understand this part. I was asking how you've identified them. Did you use any tool for that? coccinelle, sparse, ...
Not really, I did it manually by inspecting each occurence.
In that case, I don't understand why you didn't convert the occurrences from hlist_for_each_entry_rcu to hlist_for_each_entry [1]. Because a manual inspection should have noticed that there will always be the lock around these ones.
KInd regards, Sven
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.6-rc1/RCU/whatisRCU.html#analogy-with-rea...