linux-kernel - [PATCH 7/9] rcu: rcu_get_gp_cookie() / rcu_gp_cookie

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Date:	Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:48:29 -0700
From:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <jweiner@...hat.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/9] rcu: rcu_get_gp_cookie() / rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed() stand-ins

Prototypes for the proposed rcu_get_gp_cookie() / rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed()
functionality as discussed in http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=131316547914194

(This is not a correct implementation of the proposed API;
Paul McKenney is to provide that as a follow-up to this RFC)

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 99f9aa7..315a0f1 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -865,4 +865,39 @@ static inline void __rcu_reclaim(struct rcu_head *head)
 #define kfree_rcu(ptr, rcu_head)					\
 	__kfree_rcu(&((ptr)->rcu_head), offsetof(typeof(*(ptr)), rcu_head))
 
+struct rcu_cookie {long x; };
+
+/*
+ * rcu_get_gp_cookie() / rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed()
+ *
+ * rcu_get_gp_cookie() stores an opaque cookie to the provided location.
+ *
+ * rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed() returns true if it can guarantee that
+ * an rcu grace period has elapsed since the provided cookie was
+ * created by rcu_get_gp_cookie(). A return value of false indicates
+ * that rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed() does not know if an rcu grace period has
+ * elapsed or not - the call site is then expected to drop locks as desired,
+ * call rcu_synchronize(), and retry.
+ *
+ * Note that call sites are allowed to assume that rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed()
+ * will return true if they try enough times. An implementation that always
+ * returns false would be incorrect.
+ *
+ * The implementation below is also incorrect (may return false positives),
+ * however it does test that one always calls rcu_get_gp_cookie() before
+ * rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed() and that rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed() call sites
+ * are ready to handle both possible cases.
+ */
+static inline void rcu_get_gp_cookie(struct rcu_cookie *rcp)
+{
+	rcp->x = 12345678;
+}
+
+static inline bool rcu_gp_cookie_elapsed(struct rcu_cookie *rcp)
+{
+	static int count = 0;
+	BUG_ON(rcp->x != 12345678);
+	return (count++ % 16) != 0;
+}
+
 #endif /* __LINUX_RCUPDATE_H */
-- 
1.7.3.1

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