On Sat, May 05 2018, Herbert Xu wrote:

> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 01:54:14PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
>> print_ht in rhashtable_test calls rht_dereference() with neither
>> RCU protection or the mutex.  This triggers an RCU warning.
>> So take the mutex to silence the warning.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
>
> I don't think the mutex is actually needed but since we don't
> have rht_dereference_raw and this is just test code:

I agrees there is no functional need for the mutex.  It just needed to
silence the warning, so that other warnings are easier to see.

>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

thanks,
NeilBrown

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