* [PATCH 2.5.68 1/2] i_size atomic access
@ 2003-04-25 0:20 Daniel McNeil
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From: Daniel McNeil @ 2003-04-25 0:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton, Andrea Arcangeli, Linux Kernel Mailing List
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This adds a sequence counter only version of the reader/writer
consistent mechanism to seqlock.h This is used in the second
part of this patch give atomic access to i_size.
re-diff against 2.5.68.
The patch is also available for download from OSDL's patch lifecycle
manager (PLM):
http://www.osdl.org/cgi-bin/plm?module=patch_info&patch_id=1801
Thanks,
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Daniel McNeil <daniel@osdl.org>
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--- linux-2.5.68/include/linux/seqlock.h Sat Apr 19 19:49:23 2003
+++ linux-2.5.68-isize/include/linux/seqlock.h Thu Apr 24 14:30:57 2003
@@ -94,6 +94,57 @@ static inline int read_seqretry(const se
return (iv & 1) | (sl->sequence ^ iv);
}
+
+/*
+ * Version using sequence counter only.
+ * This can be used when code has its own mutex protecting the
+ * updating starting before the write_seqcntbeqin() and ending
+ * after the write_seqcntend().
+ */
+
+typedef struct seqcnt {
+ unsigned sequence;
+} seqcnt_t;
+
+#define SEQCNT_ZERO { 0 }
+#define seqcnt_init(x) do { *(x) = (seqcnt_t) SEQCNT_ZERO; } while (0)
+
+/* Start of read using pointer to a sequence counter only. */
+static inline unsigned read_seqcntbegin(const seqcnt_t *s)
+{
+ unsigned ret = s->sequence;
+ smp_rmb();
+ return ret;
+}
+
+/* Test if reader processed invalid data.
+ * Equivalent to: iv is odd or sequence number has changed.
+ * (iv & 1) || (*s != iv)
+ * Using xor saves one conditional branch.
+ */
+static inline int read_seqcntretry(const seqcnt_t *s, unsigned iv)
+{
+ smp_rmb();
+ return (iv & 1) | (s->sequence ^ iv);
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Sequence counter only version assumes that callers are using their
+ * own mutexing.
+ */
+static inline void write_seqcntbegin(seqcnt_t *s)
+{
+ s->sequence++;
+ smp_wmb();
+}
+
+static inline void write_seqcntend(seqcnt_t *s)
+{
+ smp_wmb();
+ s->sequence++;
+}
+
/*
* Possible sw/hw IRQ protected versions of the interfaces.
*/
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