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[v4,1/3] rcu: Introduce rcu_swap_protected()

Message ID 20170829155013.11124-2-bart.vanassche@wdc.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Bart Van Assche Aug. 29, 2017, 3:50 p.m. UTC 
A common pattern in RCU code is to assign a new value to an RCU
pointer after having read and stored the old value. Introduce a
macro for this pattern.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: Shane M Seymour <shane.seymour@hpe.com>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index f816fc72b51e..8e920f0ecb07 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -407,6 +407,22 @@  static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void) { }
 	_r_a_p__v;							      \
 })
 
+/**
+ * rcu_swap_protected() - swap an RCU and a regular pointer
+ * @rcu_ptr: RCU pointer
+ * @ptr: regular pointer
+ * @c: the conditions under which the dereference will take place
+ *
+ * Perform swap(@rcu_ptr, @ptr) where @rcu_ptr is an RCU-annotated pointer and
+ * @c is the argument that is passed to the rcu_dereference_protected() call
+ * used to read that pointer.
+ */
+#define rcu_swap_protected(rcu_ptr, ptr, c) do {			\
+	typeof(ptr) __tmp = rcu_dereference_protected((rcu_ptr), (c));	\
+	rcu_assign_pointer((rcu_ptr), (ptr));				\
+	(ptr) = __tmp;							\
+} while (0)
+
 /**
  * rcu_access_pointer() - fetch RCU pointer with no dereferencing
  * @p: The pointer to read