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authorDipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>2005-12-12 00:37:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-12-12 08:57:42 -0800
commitab4720ec76b756e1f8705e207a7b392b0453afd6 (patch)
tree1c4235ec8ac0e8e7f75a6f97ea6169e93647004f /include/linux
parent85b872424984e79519be904e7df02a91ba0a9486 (diff)
[PATCH] add rcu_barrier() synchronization point
This introduces a new interface - rcu_barrier() which waits until all the RCUs queued until this call have been completed. Reiser4 needs this, because we do more than just freeing memory object in our RCU callback: we also remove it from the list hanging off super-block. This means, that before freeing reiser4-specific portion of super-block (during umount) we have to wait until all pending RCU callbacks are executed. The only change of reiser4 made to the original patch, is exporting of rcu_barrier(). Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> Cc: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/rcupdate.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index cce25591eec..a471f3bb713 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ struct rcu_data {
struct rcu_head *donelist;
struct rcu_head **donetail;
int cpu;
+ struct rcu_head barrier;
};
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_data);
@@ -285,6 +286,7 @@ extern void FASTCALL(call_rcu_bh(struct rcu_head *head,
extern __deprecated_for_modules void synchronize_kernel(void);
extern void synchronize_rcu(void);
void synchronize_idle(void);
+extern void rcu_barrier(void);
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* __LINUX_RCUPDATE_H */