From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] files: rcu free files_struct
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 15:29:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wg3FFGZO6hgo-L0gSA4Vjv=B8uwa5N8P6SeJR5KbU5qBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209230755.GV7338@casper.infradead.org>
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 3:07 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> #. It is not necessary to use rcu_assign_pointer() when creating
> linked structures that are to be published via a single external
> - pointer. The RCU_INIT_POINTER() macro is provided for this task
> - and also for assigning ``NULL`` pointers at runtime.
> + pointer. The RCU_INIT_POINTER() macro is provided for this task.
> + It used to be more efficient to use RCU_INIT_POINTER() to store a
> + ``NULL`` pointer, but rcu_assign_pointer() now optimises for a constant
> + ``NULL`` pointer itself.
I would just remove the historical note about "It used to be more
efficient ..". It's not really helpful.
If somebody wants to dig into the history, it's there in git.
Maybe the note could be part of the commit message for the comment
update, explaining that it used to be more efficient but no longer is.
Because commit messages are about the explanation for the change.
But I don't feel it makes any sense in the source code.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-09 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87r1on1v62.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 01/24] exec: Move unshare_files to fix posix file locking during exec Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-07 22:22 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <87zh2pusdw.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-12-07 23:35 ` Al Viro
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 02/24] exec: Simplify unshare_files Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-23 17:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-11-23 18:25 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <87im9vx08i.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
[not found] ` <87pn42r0n7.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-11-24 19:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-11-24 20:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-11-24 23:44 ` Geoff Levand
2020-11-25 1:16 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-27 20:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-11-30 21:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-01 9:46 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-11-25 21:51 ` [RFC][PATCH] coredump: Document coredump code exclusively used by cell spufs Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-02 15:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-02 15:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-12-07 22:32 ` [PATCH v2 02/24] exec: Simplify unshare_files Al Viro
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 03/24] exec: Remove reset_files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 04/24] kcmp: In kcmp_epoll_target use fget_task Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 05/24] bpf: In bpf_task_fd_query " Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 06/24] proc/fd: In proc_fd_link " Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 07/24] file: Rename __fcheck_files to files_lookup_fd_raw Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 08/24] file: Factor files_lookup_fd_locked out of fcheck_files Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 09/24] file: Replace fcheck_files with files_lookup_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-07 22:46 ` Al Viro
2020-12-07 22:49 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 16:54 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 17:44 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 10/24] file: Rename fcheck lookup_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 11/24] file: Implement task_lookup_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-21 18:19 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
[not found] ` <87blfp1r8b.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-11-22 13:52 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 12/24] proc/fd: In tid_fd_mode use task_lookup_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 13/24] kcmp: In get_file_raw_ptr " Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-23 21:05 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 14/24] file: Implement task_lookup_next_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 15/24] proc/fd: In proc_readfd_common use task_lookup_next_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-07 23:29 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <877dprvs8e.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-12-09 4:07 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <877dprtxly.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2020-12-09 14:23 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 18:04 ` [PATCH] files: rcu free files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-09 19:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-09 19:50 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 21:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-10 6:13 ` Al Viro
2020-12-10 19:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-10 21:36 ` Al Viro
2020-12-10 22:30 ` Christian Brauner
2020-12-10 22:54 ` Al Viro
2020-12-10 23:10 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 21:42 ` [PATCH -1/24] exec: Don't open code get_close_on_exec Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-09 22:04 ` [PATCH] files: rcu free files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-09 19:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-09 22:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-09 22:58 ` Al Viro
2020-12-09 23:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-09 23:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-09 23:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-09 23:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-12-10 0:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-10 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-12-10 0:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 16/24] bpf/task_iter: In task_file_seq_get_next use task_lookup_next_fd_rcu Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-23 17:06 ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 17/24] proc/fd: In fdinfo seq_show don't use get_files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 18/24] file: Merge __fd_install into fd_install Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 19/24] file: In f_dupfd read RLIMIT_NOFILE once Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 20/24] file: Merge __alloc_fd into alloc_fd Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 21/24] file: Rename __close_fd to close_fd and remove the files parameter Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 22/24] file: Replace ksys_close with close_fd Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 23/24] file: Rename __close_fd_get_file close_fd_get_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-20 23:14 ` [PATCH v2 24/24] file: Remove get_files_struct Eric W. Biederman
2020-11-21 0:05 ` [PATCH v2 00/24] exec: Move unshare_files and guarantee files_struct.count is correct Linus Torvalds
2020-11-28 5:12 ` Al Viro
2020-12-07 23:56 ` Al Viro
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