seqlock: Add irqsave variant of read_seqbegin_or_lock()
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:12:14 +0000 (09:12 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:35:16 +0000 (12:35 +0200)
commitef8ac06359ddf95431cf6bb04ad2b36fff562328
treea7987f9ce983b4e12e26c92c140ef88a4cd7c838
parent2ed903c5485bad0eafdd3d59ff993598736e4f31
seqlock: Add irqsave variant of read_seqbegin_or_lock()

There are cases where read_seqbegin_or_lock() needs to block irqs,
because the seqlock in question nests inside a lock that is also
be taken from irq context.

Add read_seqbegin_or_lock_irqsave() and done_seqretry_irqrestore(), which
are almost identical to read_seqbegin_or_lock() and done_seqretry().

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: sgruszka@redhat.com
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410527535-9814-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com
[ Improved the readability of the code a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/seqlock.h