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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/seqlock.h | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h index 5298765d6ca4..22c2c48b4265 100644 --- a/include/linux/seqlock.h +++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h @@ -319,6 +319,28 @@ SEQCOUNT_LOCKNAME(mutex, struct mutex, true, mutex) }) /** + * raw_seqcount_try_begin() - begin a seqcount_t read critical section + * w/o lockdep and w/o counter stabilization + * @s: Pointer to seqcount_t or any of the seqcount_LOCKNAME_t variants + * + * Similar to raw_seqcount_begin(), except it enables eliding the critical + * section entirely if odd, instead of doing the speculation knowing it will + * fail. + * + * Useful when counter stabilization is more or less equivalent to taking + * the lock and there is a slowpath that does that. + * + * If true, start will be set to the (even) sequence count read. + * + * Return: true when a read critical section is started. + */ +#define raw_seqcount_try_begin(s, start) \ +({ \ + start = raw_read_seqcount(s); \ + !(start & 1); \ +}) + +/** * raw_seqcount_begin() - begin a seqcount_t read critical section w/o * lockdep and w/o counter stabilization * @s: Pointer to seqcount_t or any of the seqcount_LOCKNAME_t variants |