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authorDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>2005-09-09 16:04:09 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-09 16:57:54 -0400
commitc0dfb2905126e9e94edebbce8d3e05001301f52d (patch)
treedb31f15f7e5dea0c812992c2ca87a1151507ed9c /include/linux/rcuref.h
parent8b6490e5faafb3a16ea45654fb55f9ff086f1495 (diff)
[PATCH] files: rcuref APIs
Adds a set of primitives to do reference counting for objects that are looked up without locks using RCU. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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1/*
2 * rcuref.h
3 *
4 * Reference counting for elements of lists/arrays protected by
5 * RCU.
6 *
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
10 * (at your option) any later version.
11 *
12 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 * GNU General Public License for more details.
16 *
17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
19 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
20 *
21 * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2005
22 *
23 * Author: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
24 * Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com>
25 *
26 * See Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt for detailed user guide.
27 *
28 */
29
30#ifndef _RCUREF_H_
31#define _RCUREF_H_
32
33#ifdef __KERNEL__
34
35#include <linux/types.h>
36#include <linux/interrupt.h>
37#include <linux/spinlock.h>
38#include <asm/atomic.h>
39
40/*
41 * These APIs work on traditional atomic_t counters used in the
42 * kernel for reference counting. Under special circumstances
43 * where a lock-free get() operation races with a put() operation
44 * these APIs can be used. See Documentation/RCU/rcuref.txt.
45 */
46
47#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG
48
49/**
50 * rcuref_inc - increment refcount for object.
51 * @rcuref: reference counter in the object in question.
52 *
53 * This should be used only for objects where we use RCU and
54 * use the rcuref_inc_lf() api to acquire a reference
55 * in a lock-free reader-side critical section.
56 */
57static inline void rcuref_inc(atomic_t *rcuref)
58{
59 atomic_inc(rcuref);
60}
61
62/**
63 * rcuref_dec - decrement refcount for object.
64 * @rcuref: reference counter in the object in question.
65 *
66 * This should be used only for objects where we use RCU and
67 * use the rcuref_inc_lf() api to acquire a reference
68 * in a lock-free reader-side critical section.
69 */
70static inline void rcuref_dec(atomic_t *rcuref)
71{
72 atomic_dec(rcuref);
73}
74
75/**
76 * rcuref_dec_and_test - decrement refcount for object and test
77 * @rcuref: reference counter in the object.
78 * @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object
79 * when the last reference to the object is released.
80 * This pointer is required.
81 *
82 * Decrement the refcount, and if 0, return 1. Else return 0.
83 *
84 * This should be used only for objects where we use RCU and
85 * use the rcuref_inc_lf() api to acquire a reference
86 * in a lock-free reader-side critical section.
87 */
88static inline int rcuref_dec_and_test(atomic_t *rcuref)
89{
90 return atomic_dec_and_test(rcuref);
91}
92
93/*
94 * cmpxchg is needed on UP too, if deletions to the list/array can happen
95 * in interrupt context.
96 */
97
98/**
99 * rcuref_inc_lf - Take reference to an object in a read-side
100 * critical section protected by RCU.
101 * @rcuref: reference counter in the object in question.
102 *
103 * Try and increment the refcount by 1. The increment might fail if
104 * the reference counter has been through a 1 to 0 transition and
105 * is no longer part of the lock-free list.
106 * Returns non-zero on successful increment and zero otherwise.
107 */
108static inline int rcuref_inc_lf(atomic_t *rcuref)
109{
110 int c, old;
111 c = atomic_read(rcuref);
112 while (c && (old = cmpxchg(&rcuref->counter, c, c + 1)) != c)
113 c = old;
114 return c;
115}
116
117#else /* !__HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG */
118
119extern spinlock_t __rcuref_hash[];
120
121/*
122 * Use a hash table of locks to protect the reference count
123 * since cmpxchg is not available in this arch.
124 */
125#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
126#define RCUREF_HASH_SIZE 4
127#define RCUREF_HASH(k) \
128 (&__rcuref_hash[(((unsigned long)k)>>8) & (RCUREF_HASH_SIZE-1)])
129#else
130#define RCUREF_HASH_SIZE 1
131#define RCUREF_HASH(k) &__rcuref_hash[0]
132#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
133
134/**
135 * rcuref_inc - increment refcount for object.
136 * @rcuref: reference counter in the object in question.
137 *
138 * This should be used only for objects where we use RCU and
139 * use the rcuref_inc_lf() api to acquire a reference in a lock-free
140 * reader-side critical section.
141 */
142static inline void rcuref_inc(atomic_t *rcuref)
143{
144 unsigned long flags;
145 spin_lock_irqsave(RCUREF_HASH(rcuref), flags);
146 rcuref->counter += 1;
147 spin_unlock_irqrestore(RCUREF_HASH(rcuref), flags);
148}
149
150/**
151 * rcuref_dec - decrement refcount for object.
152 * @rcuref: reference counter in the object in question.
153 *
154 * This should be used only for objects where we use RCU and
155 * use the rcuref_inc_lf() api to acquire a reference in a lock-free
156 * reader-side critical section.
157 */
158static inline void rcuref_dec(atomic_t *rcuref)
159{
160 unsigned long flags;
161 spin_lock_irqsave(RCUREF_HASH(rcuref), flags);
162 rcuref->counter -= 1;
163 spin_unlock_irqrestore(RCUREF_HASH(rcuref), flags);
164}
165
166/**
167 * rcuref_dec_and_test - decrement refcount for object and test
168 * @rcuref: reference counter in the object.
169 * @release: pointer to the function that will clean up the object
170 * when the last reference to the object is released.
171 * This pointer is required.
172 *
173 * Decrement the refcount, and if 0, return 1. Else return 0.
174 *
175 * This should be used only for objects where we use RCU and
176 * use the rcuref_inc_lf() api to acquire a reference in a lock-free
177 * reader-side critical section.
178 */
179static inline int rcuref_dec_and_test(atomic_t *rcuref)
180{
181 unsigned long flags;
182 spin_lock_irqsave(RCUREF_HASH(rcuref), flags);
183 rcuref->counter--;
184 if (!rcuref->counter) {
185 spin_unlock_irqrestore(RCUREF_HASH(rcuref), flags);
186 return 1;
187 } else {
188 spin_unlock_irqrestore(RCUREF_HASH(rcuref), flags);
189 return 0;
190 }
191}
192
193/**
194 * rcuref_inc_lf - Take reference to an object of a lock-free collection
195 * by traversing a lock-free list/array.
196 * @rcuref: reference counter in the object in question.
197 *
198 * Try and increment the refcount by 1. The increment might fail if
199 * the reference counter has been through a 1 to 0 transition and
200 * object is no longer part of the lock-free list.
201 * Returns non-zero on successful increment and zero otherwise.
202 */
203static inline int rcuref_inc_lf(atomic_t *rcuref)
204{
205 int ret;
206 unsigned long flags;
207 spin_lock_irqsave(RCUREF_HASH(rcuref), flags);
208 if (rcuref->counter)
209 ret = rcuref->counter++;
210 else
211 ret = 0;
212 spin_unlock_irqrestore(RCUREF_HASH(rcuref), flags);
213 return ret;
214}
215
216
217#endif /* !__HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG */
218
219#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
220#endif /* _RCUREF_H_ */