On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 23:26 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
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> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Also, how do you avoid referencing dead data with your sll? I haven't
> > actually looked at your patches, but the simple scheme you outlined
> > didn't handle the iteration + concurrent removal scenario:

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> Regarding my singly-linked list, no entries are removed from the list. It's append only (like CD-R media).
> I set is_deleted flag of a entry instead of removing the entry from the list.

sounds like a might fine memory leak / dos attack.

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