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[v1,1/10] rhashtable: Add barrier to ensure we see new tables in walker

Message ID E1YZahb-0000hI-SD@gondolin.me.apana.org.au
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Herbert Xu March 22, 2015, 7:53 a.m. UTC 
The walker is a lockless reader so it too needs an smp_rmb before
reading the future_tbl field in order to see any new tables that
may contain elements that we should have walked over.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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 lib/rhashtable.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index 83cfedd..618a3f0 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -477,6 +477,9 @@  next:
 		iter->skip = 0;
 	}
 
+	/* Ensure we see any new tables. */
+	smp_rmb();
+
 	iter->walker->tbl = rht_dereference_rcu(tbl->future_tbl, ht);
 	if (iter->walker->tbl) {
 		iter->slot = 0;