[PATCH -v6 0/3] Lockless memory allocator and list
From: Huang Ying
Date: Mon Nov 29 2010 - 02:03:45 EST
This patchset adds a lockless memory allocator and a lock-less
list.
v6:
- Revise ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG definition for some architectures
according to architecture maitainers' comments.
v5:
- Add ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
- Add spin_trylock_irqsave based fallback in lockless memory allocator
if ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG=n
- Make lockless list depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
v4:
- Split from APEI patchset
- Update patch description and comments according to ML comments
v3:
- Rework lockless memory allocator and list according to ML comments
[PATCH -v6 1/3] Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
[PATCH -v6 2/3] lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless
[PATCH -v6 3/3] lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list
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