[lttng-dev] Query on the rculist

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Liu Yuan (namei.unix at gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
>    I noticed that there are just few functions suffixed with rcu for
> rculist. And from the source of Linux kernel rculist, I came up with
> some comments saying that list_empty_rcu() can be simply achieved by
> calling list_empty(). Is this true to urcu too? My questions is, are
> following equivalents true?
> 
>   list_empty_rcu -> list_empty

Yes.

>   list_del_init_rcu -> list_del_init

No.

> 
> If there are more equivalents, please show light on it.

I will prepare a patch to extend and document the list and rculist APIs.
Your feedback is welcome.

Thanks!

Mathieu

> 
> Thanks,
> Yuan

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