Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Waiman Long <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 1/2] cpu/hotplug: Add a cpus_read_trylock() function | Date | Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:26:04 -0400 |
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There are use cases where it can be useful to have a cpus_read_trylock() function to work around circular lock dependency problem involving the cpu_hotplug_lock.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> --- include/linux/cpu.h | 2 ++ kernel/cpu.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h index a97a63e..e850bfe 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpu.h +++ b/include/linux/cpu.h @@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ static inline void cpu_maps_update_done(void) extern void cpus_write_unlock(void); extern void cpus_read_lock(void); extern void cpus_read_unlock(void); +extern int cpus_read_trylock(void); extern void lockdep_assert_cpus_held(void); extern void cpu_hotplug_disable(void); extern void cpu_hotplug_enable(void); @@ -115,6 +116,7 @@ static inline void cpus_write_lock(void) { } static inline void cpus_write_unlock(void) { } static inline void cpus_read_lock(void) { } static inline void cpus_read_unlock(void) { } +static inline int cpus_read_trylock(void) { return true; } static inline void lockdep_assert_cpus_held(void) { } static inline void cpu_hotplug_disable(void) { } static inline void cpu_hotplug_enable(void) { } diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index 0db8938..307486b 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -290,6 +290,12 @@ void cpus_read_lock(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpus_read_lock); +int cpus_read_trylock(void) +{ + return percpu_down_read_trylock(&cpu_hotplug_lock); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpus_read_trylock); + void cpus_read_unlock(void) { percpu_up_read(&cpu_hotplug_lock); -- 1.8.3.1
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