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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt4
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rculist.h17
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
index cdb20d41a44..31ef8fe07f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
@@ -271,15 +271,14 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
The same cautions apply to call_rcu_bh() and call_rcu_sched().
9. All RCU list-traversal primitives, which include
- rcu_dereference(), list_for_each_entry_rcu(),
- list_for_each_continue_rcu(), and list_for_each_safe_rcu(),
- must be either within an RCU read-side critical section or
- must be protected by appropriate update-side locks. RCU
- read-side critical sections are delimited by rcu_read_lock()
- and rcu_read_unlock(), or by similar primitives such as
- rcu_read_lock_bh() and rcu_read_unlock_bh(), in which case
- the matching rcu_dereference() primitive must be used in order
- to keep lockdep happy, in this case, rcu_dereference_bh().
+ rcu_dereference(), list_for_each_entry_rcu(), and
+ list_for_each_safe_rcu(), must be either within an RCU read-side
+ critical section or must be protected by appropriate update-side
+ locks. RCU read-side critical sections are delimited by
+ rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(), or by similar primitives
+ such as rcu_read_lock_bh() and rcu_read_unlock_bh(), in which
+ case the matching rcu_dereference() primitive must be used in
+ order to keep lockdep happy, in this case, rcu_dereference_bh().
The reason that it is permissible to use RCU list-traversal
primitives when the update-side lock is held is that doing so
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index bf0f6de2aa0..9d30de00d73 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -789,9 +789,7 @@ RCU list traversal:
list_for_each_entry_rcu
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu
hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu
-
- list_for_each_continue_rcu (to be deprecated in favor of new
- list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu)
+ list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu
RCU pointer/list update:
diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h
index e0f0fab2041..c92dd28eaa6 100644
--- a/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -286,23 +286,6 @@ static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
&pos->member != (head); \
pos = list_entry_rcu(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member))
-
-/**
- * list_for_each_continue_rcu
- * @pos: the &struct list_head to use as a loop cursor.
- * @head: the head for your list.
- *
- * Iterate over an rcu-protected list, continuing after current point.
- *
- * This list-traversal primitive may safely run concurrently with
- * the _rcu list-mutation primitives such as list_add_rcu()
- * as long as the traversal is guarded by rcu_read_lock().
- */
-#define list_for_each_continue_rcu(pos, head) \
- for ((pos) = rcu_dereference_raw(list_next_rcu(pos)); \
- (pos) != (head); \
- (pos) = rcu_dereference_raw(list_next_rcu(pos)))
-
/**
* list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu - continue iteration over list of given type
* @pos: the type * to use as a loop cursor.