From f9c46d6ea5ce138a886c3a0f10a46130afab75f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nadia Derbey Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:48:01 -0700 Subject: idr: make idr_find rcu-safe Make idr_find rcu-safe: it can now be called inside an rcu_read critical section. Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Manfred Spraul Cc: Jim Houston Cc: Pierre Peiffer Acked-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/idr.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ lib/idr.c | 11 ++++++----- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/idr.h b/include/linux/idr.h index 762c3f2c631..fa035f96f2a 100644 --- a/include/linux/idr.h +++ b/include/linux/idr.h @@ -79,6 +79,22 @@ struct idr { #define _idr_rc_to_errno(rc) ((rc) == -1 ? -EAGAIN : -ENOSPC) +/** + * idr synchronization (stolen from radix-tree.h) + * + * idr_find() is able to be called locklessly, using RCU. The caller must + * ensure calls to this function are made within rcu_read_lock() regions. + * Other readers (lock-free or otherwise) and modifications may be running + * concurrently. + * + * It is still required that the caller manage the synchronization and + * lifetimes of the items. So if RCU lock-free lookups are used, typically + * this would mean that the items have their own locks, or are amenable to + * lock-free access; and that the items are freed by RCU (or only freed after + * having been deleted from the idr tree *and* a synchronize_rcu() grace + * period). + */ + /* * This is what we export. */ diff --git a/lib/idr.c b/lib/idr.c index 44ab3b2a4eb..21e12af1f23 100644 --- a/lib/idr.c +++ b/lib/idr.c @@ -456,7 +456,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(idr_destroy); * return indicates that @id is not valid or you passed %NULL in * idr_get_new(). * - * The caller must serialize idr_find() vs idr_get_new() and idr_remove(). + * This function can be called under rcu_read_lock(), given that the leaf + * pointers lifetimes are correctly managed. */ void *idr_find(struct idr *idp, int id) { @@ -464,7 +465,7 @@ void *idr_find(struct idr *idp, int id) struct idr_layer *p; n = idp->layers * IDR_BITS; - p = idp->top; + p = rcu_dereference(idp->top); /* Mask off upper bits we don't use for the search. */ id &= MAX_ID_MASK; @@ -474,7 +475,7 @@ void *idr_find(struct idr *idp, int id) while (n > 0 && p) { n -= IDR_BITS; - p = p->ary[(id >> n) & IDR_MASK]; + p = rcu_dereference(p->ary[(id >> n) & IDR_MASK]); } return((void *)p); } @@ -507,7 +508,7 @@ int idr_for_each(struct idr *idp, struct idr_layer **paa = &pa[0]; n = idp->layers * IDR_BITS; - p = idp->top; + p = rcu_dereference(idp->top); max = 1 << n; id = 0; @@ -515,7 +516,7 @@ int idr_for_each(struct idr *idp, while (n > 0 && p) { n -= IDR_BITS; *paa++ = p; - p = p->ary[(id >> n) & IDR_MASK]; + p = rcu_dereference(p->ary[(id >> n) & IDR_MASK]); } if (p) { -- cgit v1.2.3