Commit 3678d62f authored by Corey Minyard's avatar Corey Minyard Committed by Linus Torvalds

[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: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 16cf5b39
......@@ -359,6 +359,62 @@ 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.
......
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