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Commit a460bece authored by Davidlohr Bueso's avatar Davidlohr Bueso Committed by Linus Torvalds
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rbtree: use READ_ONCE in RB_EMPTY_ROOT

With commit d72da4a4

 ("rbtree: Make lockless searches non-fatal") our
rbtrees provide weak guarantees that allows us to do lockless (and very
speculative) reads of the tree.  Such readers cannot see partial stores
on nodes, ie left/right as well as root.  As such, similar to the
WRITE_ONCE semantics when doing rotations, use READ_ONCE when checking
the root node in RB_EMPTY_ROOT.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent a253f1ee
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