linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/9] rcu: Upgrade rcu_swap_protected() to rcu

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Date:   Wed,  2 Oct 2019 18:43:02 -0700
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@....com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/9] rcu: Upgrade rcu_swap_protected() to rcu_replace()

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

Although the rcu_swap_protected() macro follows the example of swap(),
the interactions with RCU make its update of its argument somewhat
counter-intuitive.  This commit therefore introduces an rcu_replace()
that returns the old value of the RCU pointer instead of doing the
argument update.  Once all the uses of rcu_swap_protected() are updated
to instead use rcu_replace(), rcu_swap_protected() will be removed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiAsJLw1egFEE=Z7-GGtM6wcvtyytXZA1+BHqta4gg6Hw@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@....com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Cc: Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@....com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 75a2ede..3b73287 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -383,6 +383,24 @@ do {									      \
 } while (0)
 
 /**
+ * rcu_replace() - replace an RCU pointer, returning its old value
+ * @rcu_ptr: RCU pointer, whose old value is returned
+ * @ptr: regular pointer
+ * @c: the lockdep conditions under which the dereference will take place
+ *
+ * Perform a replacement, where @rcu_ptr is an RCU-annotated
+ * pointer and @c is the lockdep argument that is passed to the
+ * rcu_dereference_protected() call used to read that pointer.  The old
+ * value of @rcu_ptr is returned, and @rcu_ptr is set to @ptr.
+ */
+#define rcu_replace(rcu_ptr, ptr, c)					\
+({									\
+	typeof(ptr) __tmp = rcu_dereference_protected((rcu_ptr), (c));	\
+	rcu_assign_pointer((rcu_ptr), (ptr));				\
+	__tmp;								\
+})
+
+/**
  * rcu_swap_protected() - swap an RCU and a regular pointer
  * @rcu_ptr: RCU pointer
  * @ptr: regular pointer
-- 
2.9.5