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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] hazptr: Implement Hazard Pointers
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 13:05:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5cadedd-b462-4964-a1cf-f4623379b43e@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241008135034.1982519-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

On 2024-10-08 15:50, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
[...]

> +/* Retire the protected hazard pointer from @slot. */
> +static inline
> +void hazptr_retire(struct hazptr_slot *slot, void *addr)
> +{
> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(slot->addr != addr);
> +	smp_store_release(&slot->addr, NULL);
> +}

Actually, comparing this with the literature and past presentations
from Maged Michael, "retire" is not the appropriate name here.

With Hazard Pointers, AFAIU, the "retire" operation is similar to a
call_rcu() memory reclaim. It marks the object for eventual reclamation
when it is safe to do so.

The API here really just releases the recently protected hazard
pointer. So I will rename this to "hazptr_release()".

At this stage, this hazptr API does not implement any retire operation,
and only offers the hazptr_scan() for reader/updater synchronization,
leaving the actual reclaim to the caller.

Thanks,

Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com



  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-08 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-08 13:50 [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] sched+mm: Track lazy active mm existence with hazard pointers Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-10-08 13:50 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/4] compiler.h: Introduce ptr_eq() to preserve address dependency Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-10-08 13:50 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/4] Documentation: RCU: Refer to ptr_eq() Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-10-08 13:50 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] hazptr: Implement Hazard Pointers Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-10-08 17:05   ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2024-10-08 13:50 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] sched+mm: Use hazard pointers to track lazy active mm existence Mathieu Desnoyers
2024-10-08 19:51   ` Joel Fernandes
2024-10-14  8:27   ` kernel test robot
2024-10-15 13:33     ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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