Re: [PATCH] list.h: add list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri Sep 14 2007 - 17:52:38 EST


On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:14:58PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 10:39 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 02:05:47PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > To implement the multicast list callback in mac80211 we need to
> > > do partial list iteration. Since I want to convert the interface
> > > list to an RCU list, I need a new list walking primitive:
> > > list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu().
>
> Hah. Turns out if I do the right thing with dev_mc_sync() I no longer
> need this. Paul, do you want to push it to akpm or such? My bugfix no
> longer relies on it.

OK, will push it when I convert list_for_each_continue_rcu().

Thanx, Paul
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