idr: make idr_find rcu-safe

Make idr_find rcu-safe: it can now be called inside an rcu_read critical
section.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nadia Derbey
2008-07-25 01:48:01 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3219b3b745
commit f9c46d6ea5
2 changed files with 22 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -79,6 +79,22 @@ struct idr {
#define _idr_rc_to_errno(rc) ((rc) == -1 ? -EAGAIN : -ENOSPC)
/**
* idr synchronization (stolen from radix-tree.h)
*
* idr_find() is able to be called locklessly, using RCU. The caller must
* ensure calls to this function are made within rcu_read_lock() regions.
* Other readers (lock-free or otherwise) and modifications may be running
* concurrently.
*
* It is still required that the caller manage the synchronization and
* lifetimes of the items. So if RCU lock-free lookups are used, typically
* this would mean that the items have their own locks, or are amenable to
* lock-free access; and that the items are freed by RCU (or only freed after
* having been deleted from the idr tree *and* a synchronize_rcu() grace
* period).
*/
/*
* This is what we export.
*/