[PATCH] wfcqueue: add function for unsynchronized prepend

From: Eric Wong
Date: Fri Mar 29 2013 - 04:10:45 EST


In some situations, it is necessary to prepend a node to a queue.
For epoll, this is necessary for two rare conditions:

* when the user triggers -EFAULT
* when reinjecting elements from the ovflist (implemented as a stack)

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This is on top of my other patch to implement __wfcq_enqueue

include/linux/wfcqueue.h | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/wfcqueue.h b/include/linux/wfcqueue.h
index a452ab9..4cb8f22 100644
--- a/include/linux/wfcqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/wfcqueue.h
@@ -56,15 +56,17 @@
* [5] __wfcq_first
* [6] __wfcq_next
* [7] __wfcq_enqueue
+ * [8] __wfcq_prepend
*
- * [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
- * [1] - - - - - - X
- * [2] - - - - - - X
- * [3] - - X X X X X
- * [4] - - X - X X X
- * [5] - - X X - - X
- * [6] - - X X - - X
- * [7] X X X X X X X
+ * [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
+ * [1] - - - - - - X X
+ * [2] - - - - - - X X
+ * [3] - - X X X X X X
+ * [4] - - X - X X X X
+ * [5] - - X X - - X X
+ * [6] - - X X - - X X
+ * [7] X X X X X X X X
+ * [8] X X X X X X X X
*
* Besides locking, mutual exclusion of dequeue, splice and iteration
* can be ensured by performing all of those operations from a single
@@ -441,6 +443,23 @@ static inline enum wfcq_ret __wfcq_splice(
}

/*
+ * __wfcq_prepend: prepend a node into a queue, requiring mutual exclusion.
+ *
+ * No memory barriers are issued. Mutual exclusion is the responsibility
+ * of the caller.
+ */
+static inline void __wfcq_prepend(struct wfcq_head *head,
+ struct wfcq_tail *tail, struct wfcq_node *node)
+{
+ node->next = head->node.next;
+ head->node.next = node;
+
+ /* if the queue was empty before, it is no longer empty now */
+ if (tail->p == &head->node)
+ tail->p = node;
+}
+
+/*
* __wfcq_for_each: Iterate over all nodes in a queue,
* without dequeuing them.
* @head: head of the queue (struct wfcq_head pointer).
--
Eric Wong

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