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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-05-18 17:06:31 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-05-18 17:06:49 +0200
commit6b7b8e488bbdedeccabdd001a78ffcbe43bb8a3a (patch)
treef2f77cc31b4548745778fca6a51b09e1d8a49804 /include/linux/rcupdate.h
parentb50f315cbb865079a16a12fd9ae6083f98fd592c (diff)
parentc1d10d18c542278b7fbc413c289d3cb6219da6b3 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into upstream.
This is sync with Linus' tree to receive KEY_IMAGES definition that went in through input tree.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rcupdate.h')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index af5614856285..ff422d2b7f90 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -339,6 +339,12 @@ extern int rcu_my_thread_group_empty(void);
((typeof(*p) __force __kernel *)(p)); \
})
+#define __rcu_access_index(p, space) \
+ ({ \
+ typeof(p) _________p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p); \
+ rcu_dereference_sparse(p, space); \
+ (_________p1); \
+ })
#define __rcu_dereference_index_check(p, c) \
({ \
typeof(p) _________p1 = ACCESS_ONCE(p); \
@@ -429,6 +435,20 @@ extern int rcu_my_thread_group_empty(void);
#define rcu_dereference_raw(p) rcu_dereference_check(p, 1) /*@@@ needed? @@@*/
/**
+ * rcu_access_index() - fetch RCU index with no dereferencing
+ * @p: The index to read
+ *
+ * Return the value of the specified RCU-protected index, but omit the
+ * smp_read_barrier_depends() and keep the ACCESS_ONCE(). This is useful
+ * when the value of this index is accessed, but the index is not
+ * dereferenced, for example, when testing an RCU-protected index against
+ * -1. Although rcu_access_index() may also be used in cases where
+ * update-side locks prevent the value of the index from changing, you
+ * should instead use rcu_dereference_index_protected() for this use case.
+ */
+#define rcu_access_index(p) __rcu_access_index((p), __rcu)
+
+/**
* rcu_dereference_index_check() - rcu_dereference for indices with debug checking
* @p: The pointer to read, prior to dereferencing
* @c: The conditions under which the dereference will take place