On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:05:00PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 06:59:24PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: > > I guess Marcelo was talking about rculist_nulls.h > > (Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt). > > Oh, let me have a look, I don't think I've really looked at that yet. Egads, that's far too clever ;-) Yes, if that's what Marcello was referencing to he's right, it doesn't have a proper termination condition in the face of unlimited modification. And it can indeed use SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU as you alluded to -- although the documentation is a tad scarce explaining why this is so. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html