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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>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Mathieu Desnoyers 2015-05-17 12:53:10 -04:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent b17718d02f
commit d84525a845
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@ -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)
{