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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2012-05-07 16:09:09 +0100
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2012-05-07 16:09:35 +0100
commit4f256e8aa3eda15c11c3cec3ec5336e1fc579cbd (patch)
tree33c02b5e18e79756005a3edfa7c862a47de668d5 /include/linux/seqlock.h
parent4086b1e2b19729eebf632073b9d4ab811726d8eb (diff)
parentdc257cf154be708ecc47b8b89c12ad8cd2cc35e4 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-airlied' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel into drm-core-next
Daniel prepared this branch with a back-merge as git was getting very confused about changes in intel_display.c
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/seqlock.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/seqlock.h23
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
index c6db9fb33c44..600060e25ec6 100644
--- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static inline unsigned __read_seqcount_begin(const seqcount_t *s)
unsigned ret;
repeat:
- ret = s->sequence;
+ ret = ACCESS_ONCE(s->sequence);
if (unlikely(ret & 1)) {
cpu_relax();
goto repeat;
@@ -166,6 +166,27 @@ static inline unsigned read_seqcount_begin(const seqcount_t *s)
}
/**
+ * raw_seqcount_begin - begin a seq-read critical section
+ * @s: pointer to seqcount_t
+ * Returns: count to be passed to read_seqcount_retry
+ *
+ * raw_seqcount_begin opens a read critical section of the given seqcount.
+ * Validity of the critical section is tested by checking read_seqcount_retry
+ * function.
+ *
+ * Unlike read_seqcount_begin(), this function will not wait for the count
+ * to stabilize. If a writer is active when we begin, we will fail the
+ * read_seqcount_retry() instead of stabilizing at the beginning of the
+ * critical section.
+ */
+static inline unsigned raw_seqcount_begin(const seqcount_t *s)
+{
+ unsigned ret = ACCESS_ONCE(s->sequence);
+ smp_rmb();
+ return ret & ~1;
+}
+
+/**
* __read_seqcount_retry - end a seq-read critical section (without barrier)
* @s: pointer to seqcount_t
* @start: count, from read_seqcount_begin