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[PATCH] rcu file: use atomic primitives

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Use atomic_inc_not_zero for rcu files instead of special case rcuref.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nick Piggin
2006-01-08 01:02:19 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent a57004e1af
commit 095975da26
9 changed files with 48 additions and 291 deletions
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kernel/rcupdate.c
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@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/rcuref.h>
#include <linux/cpu.h>
/* Definition for rcupdate control block. */
@@ -74,19 +73,6 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_bh_data) = { 0L };
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tasklet_struct, rcu_tasklet) = {NULL};
static int maxbatch = 10000;
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG
/*
* We use an array of spinlocks for the rcurefs -- similar to ones in sparc
* 32 bit atomic_t implementations, and a hash function similar to that
* for our refcounting needs.
* Can't help multiprocessors which donot have cmpxchg :(
*/
spinlock_t __rcuref_hash[RCUREF_HASH_SIZE] = {
[0 ... (RCUREF_HASH_SIZE-1)] = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
};
#endif
/**
* call_rcu - Queue an RCU callback for invocation after a grace period.
* @head: structure to be used for queueing the RCU updates.