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diff --git a/include/linux/llist.h b/include/linux/llist.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..aa0c8b5b3cd --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/llist.h @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +#ifndef LLIST_H +#define LLIST_H +/* + * Lock-less NULL terminated single linked list + * + * If there are multiple producers and multiple consumers, llist_add + * can be used in producers and llist_del_all can be used in + * consumers. They can work simultaneously without lock. But + * llist_del_first can not be used here. Because llist_del_first + * depends on list->first->next does not changed if list->first is not + * changed during its operation, but llist_del_first, llist_add, + * llist_add (or llist_del_all, llist_add, llist_add) sequence in + * another consumer may violate that. + * + * If there are multiple producers and one consumer, llist_add can be + * used in producers and llist_del_all or llist_del_first can be used + * in the consumer. + * + * This can be summarized as follow: + * + * | add | del_first | del_all + * add | - | - | - + * del_first | | L | L + * del_all | | | - + * + * Where "-" stands for no lock is needed, while "L" stands for lock + * is needed. + * + * The list entries deleted via llist_del_all can be traversed with + * traversing function such as llist_for_each etc. But the list + * entries can not be traversed safely before deleted from the list. + * The order of deleted entries is from the newest to the oldest added + * one. If you want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you + * must reverse the order by yourself before traversing. + * + * The basic atomic operation of this list is cmpxchg on long. On + * architectures that don't have NMI-safe cmpxchg implementation, the + * list can NOT be used in NMI handler. So code uses the list in NMI + * handler should depend on CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG. + */ + +struct llist_head { + struct llist_node *first; +}; + +struct llist_node { + struct llist_node *next; +}; + +#define LLIST_HEAD_INIT(name) { NULL } +#define LLIST_HEAD(name) struct llist_head name = LLIST_HEAD_INIT(name) + +/** + * init_llist_head - initialize lock-less list head + * @head: the head for your lock-less list + */ +static inline void init_llist_head(struct llist_head *list) +{ + list->first = NULL; +} + +/** + * llist_entry - get the struct of this entry + * @ptr: the &struct llist_node pointer. + * @type: the type of the struct this is embedded in. + * @member: the name of the llist_node within the struct. + */ +#define llist_entry(ptr, type, member) \ + container_of(ptr, type, member) + +/** + * llist_for_each - iterate over some deleted entries of a lock-less list + * @pos: the &struct llist_node to use as a loop cursor + * @node: the first entry of deleted list entries + * + * In general, some entries of the lock-less list can be traversed + * safely only after being deleted from list, so start with an entry + * instead of list head. + * + * If being used on entries deleted from lock-less list directly, the + * traverse order is from the newest to the oldest added entry. If + * you want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must + * reverse the order by yourself before traversing. + */ +#define llist_for_each(pos, node) \ + for ((pos) = (node); pos; (pos) = (pos)->next) + +/** + * llist_for_each_entry - iterate over some deleted entries of lock-less list of given type + * @pos: the type * to use as a loop cursor. + * @node: the fist entry of deleted list entries. + * @member: the name of the llist_node with the struct. + * + * In general, some entries of the lock-less list can be traversed + * safely only after being removed from list, so start with an entry + * instead of list head. + * + * If being used on entries deleted from lock-less list directly, the + * traverse order is from the newest to the oldest added entry. If + * you want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must + * reverse the order by yourself before traversing. + */ +#define llist_for_each_entry(pos, node, member) \ + for ((pos) = llist_entry((node), typeof(*(pos)), member); \ + &(pos)->member != NULL; \ + (pos) = llist_entry((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member)) + +/** + * llist_empty - tests whether a lock-less list is empty + * @head: the list to test + * + * Not guaranteed to be accurate or up to date. Just a quick way to + * test whether the list is empty without deleting something from the + * list. + */ +static inline int llist_empty(const struct llist_head *head) +{ + return ACCESS_ONCE(head->first) == NULL; +} + +void llist_add(struct llist_node *new, struct llist_head *head); +void llist_add_batch(struct llist_node *new_first, struct llist_node *new_last, + struct llist_head *head); +struct llist_node *llist_del_first(struct llist_head *head); +struct llist_node *llist_del_all(struct llist_head *head); +#endif /* LLIST_H */ |