rbtree: use READ_ONCE in RB_EMPTY_ROOT
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:00:42 +0000 (15:00 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 21 Jan 2016 01:09:18 +0000 (17:09 -0800)
commita460bece027301e079b9e53c5e0f67c8e3eaebc1
treec53d99607bbbb604bb48cc44d889459d354acd7f
parenta253f1eee6c471d5418983ca9aa9c756e7db5db9
rbtree: use READ_ONCE in RB_EMPTY_ROOT

With commit d72da4a4d97 ("rbtree: Make lockless searches non-fatal") our
rbtrees provide weak guarantees that allows us to do lockless (and very
speculative) reads of the tree.  Such readers cannot see partial stores
on nodes, ie left/right as well as root.  As such, similar to the
WRITE_ONCE semantics when doing rotations, use READ_ONCE when checking
the root node in RB_EMPTY_ROOT.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/rbtree.h