linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 01/24] Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design and usage

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Date:   Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:34:53 +0200
From:   "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@...utronix.de>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        "Sebastian A. Siewior" <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/24] Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design
 and usage

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 09:35:51PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:55:07 +0200
> "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@...utronix.de> wrote:
> > +Read path, three categories:
> > +
> > +1. Normal Sequence readers which never block a writer but they must
> > +   retry if a writer is in progress by detecting change in the sequence
> > +   number.  Writers do not wait for a sequence reader::
> > +
> > +	do {
> > +		seq = read_seqbegin(&foo_seqlock);
> > +
> > +		/* ... [[read-side critical section]] ... */
> > +
> > +	} while (read_seqretry(&foo_seqlock, seq));
> > +
> > +2. Locking readers which will wait if a writer or another locking reader
> > +   is in progress. A locking reader in progress will also block a writer
> > +   from entering its critical section. This read lock is
> > +   exclusive. Unlike rwlock_t, only one locking reader can acquire it::
>
> Nit, but I would mention that this acts similar to a normal spin_lock,
> and even disables preeption (in the non-RT case).

will do.

Thanks,

--
Ahmed S. Darwish
Linutronix GmbH