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author | Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> | 2007-02-10 01:45:42 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-11 10:51:31 -0800 |
commit | 3678d62f028689abc8ac5693b254e48f605f94ba (patch) | |
tree | 7a897ae6d308411586c274e23f940b4d280b7ff1 /include/linux/list.h | |
parent | 16cf5b39b81b95d1e3d81df3ba8c82cadf54f551 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] add an RCU version of list splicing
This patch is in support of the IPMI driver. I have tested this with the
IPMI driver changes coming in the next patch.
Add a list_splice_init_rcu() function to splice an RCU-protected list into
another list. This takes the sync function as an argument, so one would do
something like:
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list);
list_splice_init_rcu(&source, &dest, synchronize_rcu);
The idea being to keep the RCU API proliferation down to a dull roar.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/list.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/list.h | 56 |
1 files changed, 56 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h index 611059d..cdc9655 100644 --- a/include/linux/list.h +++ b/include/linux/list.h @@ -360,6 +360,62 @@ static inline void list_splice_init(struct list_head *list, } /** + * list_splice_init_rcu - splice an RCU-protected list into an existing list. + * @list: the RCU-protected list to splice + * @head: the place in the list to splice the first list into + * @sync: function to sync: synchronize_rcu(), synchronize_sched(), ... + * + * @head can be RCU-read traversed concurrently with this function. + * + * Note that this function blocks. + * + * Important note: the caller must take whatever action is necessary to + * prevent any other updates to @head. In principle, it is possible + * to modify the list as soon as sync() begins execution. + * If this sort of thing becomes necessary, an alternative version + * based on call_rcu() could be created. But only if -really- + * needed -- there is no shortage of RCU API members. + */ +static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(struct list_head *list, + struct list_head *head, + void (*sync)(void)) +{ + struct list_head *first = list->next; + struct list_head *last = list->prev; + struct list_head *at = head->next; + + if (list_empty(head)) + return; + + /* "first" and "last" tracking list, so initialize it. */ + + INIT_LIST_HEAD(list); + + /* + * At this point, the list body still points to the source list. + * Wait for any readers to finish using the list before splicing + * the list body into the new list. Any new readers will see + * an empty list. + */ + + sync(); + + /* + * Readers are finished with the source list, so perform splice. + * The order is important if the new list is global and accessible + * to concurrent RCU readers. Note that RCU readers are not + * permitted to traverse the prev pointers without excluding + * this function. + */ + + last->next = at; + smp_wmb(); + head->next = first; + first->prev = head; + at->prev = last; +} + +/** * list_entry - get the struct for this entry * @ptr: the &struct list_head pointer. * @type: the type of the struct this is embedded in. |