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-rw-r--r--include/linux/rculist_nulls.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h b/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h
index 2ae13714828b..1c33dd7da4a7 100644
--- a/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h
@@ -105,9 +105,14 @@ static inline void hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu(struct hlist_nulls_node *n,
* @head: the head for your list.
* @member: the name of the hlist_nulls_node within the struct.
*
+ * The barrier() is needed to make sure compiler doesn't cache first element [1],
+ * as this loop can be restarted [2]
+ * [1] Documentation/atomic_ops.txt around line 114
+ * [2] Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt around line 146
*/
#define hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu(tpos, pos, head, member) \
- for (pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_first_rcu(head)); \
+ for (({barrier();}), \
+ pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_first_rcu(head)); \
(!is_a_nulls(pos)) && \
({ tpos = hlist_nulls_entry(pos, typeof(*tpos), member); 1; }); \
pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_next_rcu(pos)))