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rhashtable_try_insert() currently holds a lock on the bucket in the first table, while also locking buckets in subsequent tables. This is unnecessary and looks like a hold-over from some earlier version of the implementation. As insert and remove always lock a bucket in each table in turn, and as insert only inserts in the final table, there cannot be any races that are not covered by simply locking a bucket in each table in turn. When an insert call reaches that last table it can be sure that there is no matchinf entry in any other table as it has searched them all, and insertion never happens anywhere but in the last table. The fact that code tests for the existence of future_tbl while holding a lock on the relevant bucket ensures that two threads inserting the same key will make compatible decisions about which is the "last" table. This simplifies the code and allows the ->rehash field to be discarded. We still need a way to ensure that a dead bucket_table is never re-linked by rhashtable_walk_stop(). This can be achieved by calling call_rcu() inside the locked region, and checking with rcu_head_after_call_rcu() in rhashtable_walk_stop() to see if the bucket table is empty and dead. Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.