raw_read_seqcount opens a read critical section of the given seqcount without any lockdep checking and without checking or masking the LSB. Calling code is responsible for handling that. Preparatory patch to provide a NMI safe clock monotonic accessor function. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers --- include/linux/seqlock.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) Index: tip/include/linux/seqlock.h =================================================================== --- tip.orig/include/linux/seqlock.h +++ tip/include/linux/seqlock.h @@ -117,6 +117,22 @@ repeat: } /** + * raw_read_seqcount - Read the raw seqcount + * @s: pointer to seqcount_t + * Returns: count to be passed to read_seqcount_retry + * + * raw_read_seqcount opens a read critical section of the given + * seqcount without any lockdep checking and without checking or + * masking the LSB. Calling code is responsible for handling that. + */ +static inline unsigned raw_read_seqcount(const seqcount_t *s) +{ + unsigned ret = ACCESS_ONCE(s->sequence); + smp_rmb(); + return ret; +} + +/** * raw_read_seqcount_begin - start seq-read critical section w/o lockdep * @s: pointer to seqcount_t * Returns: count to be passed to read_seqcount_retry