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| author | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2013-05-28 22:38:42 +0400 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2013-05-29 06:47:13 +0400 |
| commit | 12bcbe66d7b3cc9f9f86cd02f925666eaa3c2107 (patch) | |
| tree | 54e70e0f7450aedfee1418742758dc538d9649e5 /include/linux/rculist.h | |
| parent | 6721cb60022629ae76365551f05d9658b8d14c55 (diff) | |
| download | linux-12bcbe66d7b3cc9f9f86cd02f925666eaa3c2107.tar.xz | |
rcu: Add _notrace variation of rcu_dereference_raw() and hlist_for_each_entry_rcu()
As rcu_dereference_raw() under RCU debug config options can add quite a
bit of checks, and that tracing uses rcu_dereference_raw(), these checks
happen with the function tracer. The function tracer also happens to trace
these debug checks too. This added overhead can livelock the system.
Add a new interface to RCU for both rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() as well
as hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace() as the hlist iterator uses the
rcu_dereference_raw() as well, and is used a bit with the function tracer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528184209.304356745@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rculist.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rculist.h | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h index 8089e35d47ac..f4b1001a4676 100644 --- a/include/linux/rculist.h +++ b/include/linux/rculist.h @@ -461,6 +461,26 @@ static inline void hlist_add_after_rcu(struct hlist_node *prev, &(pos)->member)), typeof(*(pos)), member)) /** + * hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace - iterate over rcu list of given type (for tracing) + * @pos: the type * to use as a loop cursor. + * @head: the head for your list. + * @member: the name of the hlist_node within the struct. + * + * This list-traversal primitive may safely run concurrently with + * the _rcu list-mutation primitives such as hlist_add_head_rcu() + * as long as the traversal is guarded by rcu_read_lock(). + * + * This is the same as hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() except that it does + * not do any RCU debugging or tracing. + */ +#define hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace(pos, head, member) \ + for (pos = hlist_entry_safe (rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(hlist_first_rcu(head)),\ + typeof(*(pos)), member); \ + pos; \ + pos = hlist_entry_safe(rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(hlist_next_rcu(\ + &(pos)->member)), typeof(*(pos)), member)) + +/** * hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh - iterate over rcu list of given type * @pos: the type * to use as a loop cursor. * @head: the head for your list. |