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/*
* Specialised local-global spinlock. Can only be declared as global variables
* to avoid overhead and keep things simple (and we don't want to start using
* these inside dynamically allocated structures).
*
* "local/global locks" (lglocks) can be used to:
*
* - Provide fast exclusive access to per-CPU data, with exclusive access to
* another CPU's data allowed but possibly subject to contention, and to
* provide very slow exclusive access to all per-CPU data.
* - Or to provide very fast and scalable read serialisation, and to provide
* very slow exclusive serialisation of data (not necessarily per-CPU data).
*
* Brlocks are also implemented as a short-hand notation for the latter use
* case.
*
* Copyright 2009, 2010, Nick Piggin, Novell Inc.
*/
#ifndef __LINUX_LGLOCK_H
#define __LINUX_LGLOCK_H
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/lockdep.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
/* can make br locks by using local lock for read side, global lock for write */
#define br_lock_init(name) name##_lock_init()
#define br_read_lock(name) name##_local_lock()
#define br_read_unlock(name) name##_local_unlock()
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