From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Huang Ying Subject: [PATCH -v6 0/3] Lockless memory allocator and list Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:03:18 +0800 Message-ID: <1291014201-15513-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> Return-path: Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:52747 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751275Ab0K2HD1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:03:27 -0500 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , ying.huang@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar 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