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+/*
+ *	Definitions for the 'struct ptr_ring' datastructure.
+ *
+ *	Author:
+ *		Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
+ *
+ *	Copyright (C) 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
+ *
+ *	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ *	under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+ *	Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+ *	option) any later version.
+ *
+ *	This is a limited-size FIFO maintaining pointers in FIFO order, with
+ *	one CPU producing entries and another consuming entries from a FIFO.
+ *
+ *	This implementation tries to minimize cache-contention when there is a
+ *	single producer and a single consumer CPU.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_PTR_RING_H
+#define _LINUX_PTR_RING_H 1
+
+#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
+#include <linux/cache.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/cache.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <asm/errno.h>
+#endif
+
+struct ptr_ring {
+	int producer ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+	spinlock_t producer_lock;
+	int consumer ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
+	spinlock_t consumer_lock;
+	/* Shared consumer/producer data */
+	/* Read-only by both the producer and the consumer */
+	int size ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; /* max entries in queue */
+	void **queue;
+};
+
+/* Note: callers invoking this in a loop must use a compiler barrier,
+ * for example cpu_relax().
+ * Callers don't need to take producer lock - if they don't
+ * the next call to __ptr_ring_produce may fail.
+ */
+static inline bool __ptr_ring_full(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	return r->queue[r->producer];
+}
+
+static inline bool ptr_ring_full(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	barrier();
+	return __ptr_ring_full(r);
+}
+
+/* Note: callers invoking this in a loop must use a compiler barrier,
+ * for example cpu_relax().
+ */
+static inline int __ptr_ring_produce(struct ptr_ring *r, void *ptr)
+{
+	if (__ptr_ring_full(r))
+		return -ENOSPC;
+
+	r->queue[r->producer++] = ptr;
+	if (unlikely(r->producer >= r->size))
+		r->producer = 0;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline int ptr_ring_produce(struct ptr_ring *r, void *ptr)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	spin_lock(&r->producer_lock);
+	ret = __ptr_ring_produce(r, ptr);
+	spin_unlock(&r->producer_lock);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static inline int ptr_ring_produce_irq(struct ptr_ring *r, void *ptr)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	spin_lock_irq(&r->producer_lock);
+	ret = __ptr_ring_produce(r, ptr);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&r->producer_lock);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static inline int ptr_ring_produce_any(struct ptr_ring *r, void *ptr)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int ret;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&r->producer_lock, flags);
+	ret = __ptr_ring_produce(r, ptr);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&r->producer_lock, flags);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static inline int ptr_ring_produce_bh(struct ptr_ring *r, void *ptr)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	spin_lock_bh(&r->producer_lock);
+	ret = __ptr_ring_produce(r, ptr);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&r->producer_lock);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/* Note: callers invoking this in a loop must use a compiler barrier,
+ * for example cpu_relax(). Callers must take consumer_lock
+ * if they dereference the pointer - see e.g. PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL.
+ * There's no need for a lock if pointer is merely tested - see e.g.
+ * ptr_ring_empty.
+ */
+static inline void *__ptr_ring_peek(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	return r->queue[r->consumer];
+}
+
+static inline bool ptr_ring_empty(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	barrier();
+	return !__ptr_ring_peek(r);
+}
+
+/* Must only be called after __ptr_ring_peek returned !NULL */
+static inline void __ptr_ring_discard_one(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	r->queue[r->consumer++] = NULL;
+	if (unlikely(r->consumer >= r->size))
+		r->consumer = 0;
+}
+
+static inline void *__ptr_ring_consume(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	void *ptr;
+
+	ptr = __ptr_ring_peek(r);
+	if (ptr)
+		__ptr_ring_discard_one(r);
+
+	return ptr;
+}
+
+static inline void *ptr_ring_consume(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	void *ptr;
+
+	spin_lock(&r->consumer_lock);
+	ptr = __ptr_ring_consume(r);
+	spin_unlock(&r->consumer_lock);
+
+	return ptr;
+}
+
+static inline void *ptr_ring_consume_irq(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	void *ptr;
+
+	spin_lock_irq(&r->consumer_lock);
+	ptr = __ptr_ring_consume(r);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&r->consumer_lock);
+
+	return ptr;
+}
+
+static inline void *ptr_ring_consume_any(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	void *ptr;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&r->consumer_lock, flags);
+	ptr = __ptr_ring_consume(r);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&r->consumer_lock, flags);
+
+	return ptr;
+}
+
+static inline void *ptr_ring_consume_bh(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	void *ptr;
+
+	spin_lock(&r->consumer_lock);
+	ptr = __ptr_ring_consume(r);
+	spin_unlock(&r->consumer_lock);
+
+	return ptr;
+}
+
+/* Cast to structure type and call a function without discarding from FIFO.
+ * Function must return a value.
+ * Callers must take consumer_lock.
+ */
+#define __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL(r, f) ((f)(__ptr_ring_peek(r)))
+
+#define PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL(r, f) ({ \
+	typeof((f)(NULL)) __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v; \
+	\
+	spin_lock(&(r)->consumer_lock); \
+	__PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v = __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL(r, f); \
+	spin_unlock(&(r)->consumer_lock); \
+	__PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v; \
+})
+
+#define PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_IRQ(r, f) ({ \
+	typeof((f)(NULL)) __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v; \
+	\
+	spin_lock_irq(&(r)->consumer_lock); \
+	__PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v = __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL(r, f); \
+	spin_unlock_irq(&(r)->consumer_lock); \
+	__PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v; \
+})
+
+#define PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_BH(r, f) ({ \
+	typeof((f)(NULL)) __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v; \
+	\
+	spin_lock_bh(&(r)->consumer_lock); \
+	__PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v = __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL(r, f); \
+	spin_unlock_bh(&(r)->consumer_lock); \
+	__PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v; \
+})
+
+#define PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_ANY(r, f) ({ \
+	typeof((f)(NULL)) __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v; \
+	unsigned long __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_f;\
+	\
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&(r)->consumer_lock, __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_f); \
+	__PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v = __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL(r, f); \
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(r)->consumer_lock, __PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_f); \
+	__PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL_v; \
+})
+
+static inline int ptr_ring_init(struct ptr_ring *r, int size, gfp_t gfp)
+{
+	r->queue = kzalloc(ALIGN(size * sizeof *(r->queue), SMP_CACHE_BYTES),
+			   gfp);
+	if (!r->queue)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	r->size = size;
+	r->producer = r->consumer = 0;
+	spin_lock_init(&r->producer_lock);
+	spin_lock_init(&r->consumer_lock);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void ptr_ring_cleanup(struct ptr_ring *r)
+{
+	kfree(r->queue);
+}
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_PTR_RING_H  */
