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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-07-08 04:12:26 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-08-31 02:03:31 +0300
commitaff5f0369e312b0ab0ca7a2a12dd64b7e39c7091 (patch)
treea487ea602038fa0d274c8252d6e16b4851e94be9 /include/linux/rculist.h
parent2bd8b1a2afc4463cc503665e98faa5909d1ac462 (diff)
downloadlinux-aff5f0369e312b0ab0ca7a2a12dd64b7e39c7091.tar.xz
rcu: Clean up flavor-related definitions and comments in rculist.h
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rculist.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rculist.h32
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h
index 4786c2235b98..e91ec9ddcd30 100644
--- a/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ static inline void list_replace_rcu(struct list_head *old,
* @list: the RCU-protected list to splice
* @prev: points to the last element of the existing list
* @next: points to the first element of the existing list
- * @sync: function to sync: synchronize_rcu(), synchronize_sched(), ...
+ * @sync: synchronize_rcu, synchronize_rcu_expedited, ...
*
* The list pointed to by @prev and @next can be RCU-read traversed
* concurrently with this function.
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static inline void __list_splice_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
* designed for stacks.
* @list: the RCU-protected list to splice
* @head: the place in the existing list to splice the first list into
- * @sync: function to sync: synchronize_rcu(), synchronize_sched(), ...
+ * @sync: synchronize_rcu, synchronize_rcu_expedited, ...
*/
static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
struct list_head *head,
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
* list, designed for queues.
* @list: the RCU-protected list to splice
* @head: the place in the existing list to splice the first list into
- * @sync: function to sync: synchronize_rcu(), synchronize_sched(), ...
+ * @sync: synchronize_rcu, synchronize_rcu_expedited, ...
*/
static inline void list_splice_tail_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
struct list_head *head,
@@ -359,13 +359,12 @@ static inline void list_splice_tail_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
* @type: the type of the struct this is embedded in.
* @member: the name of the list_head within the struct.
*
- * This primitive may safely run concurrently with the _rcu list-mutation
- * primitives such as list_add_rcu(), but requires some implicit RCU
- * read-side guarding. One example is running within a special
- * exception-time environment where preemption is disabled and where
- * lockdep cannot be invoked (in which case updaters must use RCU-sched,
- * as in synchronize_sched(), call_rcu_sched(), and friends). Another
- * example is when items are added to the list, but never deleted.
+ * This primitive may safely run concurrently with the _rcu
+ * list-mutation primitives such as list_add_rcu(), but requires some
+ * implicit RCU read-side guarding. One example is running within a special
+ * exception-time environment where preemption is disabled and where lockdep
+ * cannot be invoked. Another example is when items are added to the list,
+ * but never deleted.
*/
#define list_entry_lockless(ptr, type, member) \
container_of((typeof(ptr))READ_ONCE(ptr), type, member)
@@ -376,13 +375,12 @@ static inline void list_splice_tail_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
* @head: the head for your list.
* @member: the name of the list_struct within the struct.
*
- * This primitive may safely run concurrently with the _rcu list-mutation
- * primitives such as list_add_rcu(), but requires some implicit RCU
- * read-side guarding. One example is running within a special
- * exception-time environment where preemption is disabled and where
- * lockdep cannot be invoked (in which case updaters must use RCU-sched,
- * as in synchronize_sched(), call_rcu_sched(), and friends). Another
- * example is when items are added to the list, but never deleted.
+ * This primitive may safely run concurrently with the _rcu
+ * list-mutation primitives such as list_add_rcu(), but requires some
+ * implicit RCU read-side guarding. One example is running within a special
+ * exception-time environment where preemption is disabled and where lockdep
+ * cannot be invoked. Another example is when items are added to the list,
+ * but never deleted.
*/
#define list_for_each_entry_lockless(pos, head, member) \
for (pos = list_entry_lockless((head)->next, typeof(*pos), member); \