Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:49:21 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <20141210.134921.191006187867269911.davem@davemloft.net>
To: ying.xue@windriver.com
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        erik.hugne@ericsson.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-all@01.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RESEND 0/2] fix rculist sparse errors
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:46:05 +0800

> When hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh() gets "next" pointer of
> hlist_node structure through rcu_dereference_bh(), sparse warning
> appears as the "next" pointer is not annotated as __rcu. So if
> the "next" pointer is accessed with hlist_next_rcu() macro, the
> __rcu annotation will be added to the pointer. As a consequence,
> sparse warning is eliminated too.
> 
> The similar errors also appear in hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu()
> and hlist_for_each_entry_from_rcu().
> 
> In this version, CC more people like Paul E. McKenney and lkml mail
> list.

The rculist.h changes should go via Paul's tree, not mine.
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