tty: Use lockless flip buffer free list
In preparation for lockless flip buffers, make the flip buffer free list lockless. NB: using llist is not the optimal solution, as the driver and buffer work may contend over the llist head unnecessarily. However, test measurements indicate this contention is low. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -124,6 +124,29 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struct llist_head *list)
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&(pos)->member != NULL; \
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(pos) = llist_entry((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member))
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/**
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* llist_for_each_entry_safe - iterate over some deleted entries of lock-less list of given type
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* safe against removal of list entry
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* @pos: the type * to use as a loop cursor.
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* @n: another type * to use as temporary storage
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* @node: the first entry of deleted list entries.
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* @member: the name of the llist_node with the struct.
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*
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* In general, some entries of the lock-less list can be traversed
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* safely only after being removed from list, so start with an entry
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* instead of list head.
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*
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* If being used on entries deleted from lock-less list directly, the
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* traverse order is from the newest to the oldest added entry. If
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* you want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must
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* reverse the order by yourself before traversing.
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*/
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#define llist_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, node, member) \
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for (pos = llist_entry((node), typeof(*pos), member); \
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&pos->member != NULL && \
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(n = llist_entry(pos->member.next, typeof(*n), member), true); \
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pos = n)
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/**
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* llist_empty - tests whether a lock-less list is empty
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* @head: the list to test
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