On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:54:15AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > >> diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
> > >> index 30526afa8343..852ffa5160f1 100644
> > >> --- a/lib/rhashtable.c
> > >> +++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
> > >> @@ -1179,8 +1179,7 @@ struct rhash_head __rcu **rht_bucket_nested(const
> > >> struct bucket_table *tbl,
> > >> unsigned int hash)
> > >> {
> > >> const unsigned int shift = PAGE_SHIFT - ilog2(sizeof(void *));
> > >> - static struct rhash_head __rcu *rhnull =
> > >> - (struct rhash_head __rcu *)NULLS_MARKER(0);
> > >> + static struct rhash_head __rcu *rhnull;
> > >
> > > I don't understand why you can't continue to do NULLS_MARKER(0) or
> > > RHT_NULLS_MARKER(0).
> >
> > Because then the test
> >
> > + } while (he != RHT_NULLS_MARKER(head));
> >
> > in __rhashtable_lookup() would always succeed, and it would loop
> > forever.
>
> This change is only necessary because of your shifting change
> above, which AFAICS adds no real benefit.
I take that back. Because of your shift which cancels out the
shift in NULLS_MARKER, it would appear that this should work just
fine with RHT_NULLS_MARRKER(0), no? IOW, it would appear that
RHT_NULLS_MARKER(0) = RHT_NULLS_MARKER(RHT_NULLS_MARKER(0))
Thanks,
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