Explain why we don't touch the next pointer of the removed entry.

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riastradh 2016-11-18 06:41:52 +00:00
parent f48fa2dcc1
commit b094eba6ab

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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
/* $NetBSD: pslist.h,v 1.3 2016/07/07 06:56:25 ozaki-r Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: pslist.h,v 1.4 2016/11/18 06:41:52 riastradh Exp $ */
/*-
* Copyright (c) 2016 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@ -175,6 +175,13 @@ pslist_writer_remove(struct pslist_entry *entry)
entry->ple_next->ple_prevp = entry->ple_prevp;
*entry->ple_prevp = entry->ple_next;
entry->ple_prevp = NULL;
/*
* Leave entry->ple_next intact so that any extant readers can
* continue iterating through the list. The caller must then
* wait for readers to drain, e.g. with pserialize_perform,
* before destroying and reusing the entry.
*/
}
static inline struct pslist_entry *