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rhashtable: Remove RCU marking from rhash_lock_head
authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Thu, 16 May 2019 07:19:46 +0000 (15:19 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 16 May 2019 16:45:20 +0000 (09:45 -0700)
commitba6306e3f648a857ae52ddcabc2859542fd2f94c
tree8d9582c2d800f1a7cfa3daef5afb67f263ead579
parentc7d5ec26ea4adf450d9ab2b794e7735761a93af1
rhashtable: Remove RCU marking from rhash_lock_head

The opaque type rhash_lock_head should not be marked with __rcu
because it can never be dereferenced.  We should apply the RCU
marking when we turn it into a pointer which can be dereferenced.

This patch does exactly that.  This fixes a number of sparse
warnings as well as getting rid of some unnecessary RCU checking.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/rhashtable.h
lib/rhashtable.c