From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 16:53:10 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: sched/preempt: Fix preempt notifiers documentation about hlist_del() within unsafe... 
X-Git-Tag: v4.2~407^2~7
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d84525a845cc2617d638349f8756a9fec9ac8113;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-amlogic.git

sched/preempt: Fix preempt notifiers documentation about hlist_del() within unsafe iteration

preempt_notifier_unregister() documents:

  "This is safe to call from within a preemption notifier."

However, both fire_sched_in_preempt_notifiers() and
fire_sched_out_preempt_notifiers() are using hlist_for_each_entry(),
which is not safe against entry removal during iteration.

Inspection of the KVM code does not reveal any use of
preempt_notifier_unregister() within the preempt notifiers.

Therefore, fix the comment.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431881590-1456-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index af0a5a6..bdb7aa6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -2165,7 +2165,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(preempt_notifier_register);
  * preempt_notifier_unregister - no longer interested in preemption notifications
  * @notifier: notifier struct to unregister
  *
- * This is safe to call from within a preemption notifier.
+ * This is *not* safe to call from within a preemption notifier.
  */
 void preempt_notifier_unregister(struct preempt_notifier *notifier)
 {