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Some users of rhashtables might need to move an object from one table to another - this appears to be the reason for the incomplete usage of NULLS markers. To support these, we store a unique NULLS_MARKER at the end of each chain, and when a search fails to find a match, we check if the NULLS marker found was the expected one. If not, the search may not have examined all objects in the target bucket, so it is repeated. The unique NULLS_MARKER is derived from the address of the head of the chain. As this cannot be derived at load-time the static rhnull in rht_bucket_nested() needs to be initialised at run time. Any caller of a lookup function must still be prepared for the possibility that the object returned is in a different table - it might have been there for some time. Note that this does NOT provide support for other uses of NULLS_MARKERs such as allocating with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU or changing the key of an object and re-inserting it in the same table. These could only be done safely if new objects were inserted at the *start* of a hash chain, and that is not currently the case. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.