On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:08:14PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >  		hlist_for_each_entry_safe_rcu(mn, n, t,
> 				         ^^^^
> 
> >  					  &mm->mmu_notifier.head, hlist) {
> >  			hlist_del_rcu(&mn->hlist);
> 				 ^^^^
> 
> _rcu can go away from both, if hlist_del_rcu can be called w/o locks.

True. hlist_del_init ok? That would allow to check the driver that the 
mmu_notifier is already linked in using !hlist_unhashed(). Driver then 
needs to properly initialize the mmu_notifier list with INIT_HLIST_NODE().


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