[Cluster-devel] [PATCH 2/3] rhashtable: Add rhashtable_walk_curr

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 02:31:21PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> When iterating through an rhashtable is stopped with
> rhashtable_walk_stop and then resumed with rhashtable_walk_start, there
> currently is no way to get back to the current object and thus revisit
> the object rhashtable_walk_next has previously returned.
> 
> This functionality is useful when dumping an rhashtable via the seq file
> interface: seq_read will convert one object after the other.  When an
> object doesn't fit in the remaining buffer space anymore, user-space
> will be returned all objects that have been fully converted so far.
> Upon the next read from user-space, the object that didn't fit
> previously will be revisited.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba at redhat.com>

Doesn't the helper that Tom Herbert just added do exactly this?

Thanks,
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