From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Osipenko Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:19:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/25] notifier: Add blocking_notifier_call_chain_is_empty() Message-Id: <9307a684-0b0b-0488-75be-7845d9b973a1@gmail.com> List-Id: References: <20211126180101.27818-1-digetx@gmail.com> <20211126180101.27818-3-digetx@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Thierry Reding , Jonathan Hunter , Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Guo Ren , Geert Uytterhoeven , Greg Ungerer , Joshua Thompson , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Sebastian Reichel , Linus Walleij , Philipp Zabel , Greentime Hu , Vincent Chen , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Michael Ellerman , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , the arch/x86 maintainers , "H. Peter Anvin" , Boris Ostrovsky , Juergen Gross , Stefano Stabellini , Len Brown , Santosh Shilimkar , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , Pavel Machek , Lee Jones , Andrew Morton , Guenter Roeck , Daniel Lezcano , Andy Shevchenko , Ulf Hansson , alankao@andestech.com, "K . C . Kuen-Chern Lin" , Linux ARM , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev , linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, Linux-sh list , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, ACPI Devel Maling List , Linux PM , linux-tegra 10.12.2021 21:14, Rafael J. Wysocki пишет: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 7:01 PM Dmitry Osipenko wrote: >> >> Add blocking_notifier_call_chain_is_empty() that returns true if call >> chain is empty. >> >> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko >> --- >> include/linux/notifier.h | 2 ++ >> kernel/notifier.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ >> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) >> >> diff --git a/include/linux/notifier.h b/include/linux/notifier.h >> index 4b80a815b666..924c9d7c8e73 100644 >> --- a/include/linux/notifier.h >> +++ b/include/linux/notifier.h >> @@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ int blocking_notifier_call_chain_robust(struct blocking_notifier_head *nh, >> int raw_notifier_call_chain_robust(struct raw_notifier_head *nh, >> unsigned long val_up, unsigned long val_down, void *v); >> >> +bool blocking_notifier_call_chain_is_empty(struct blocking_notifier_head *nh); >> + >> #define NOTIFY_DONE 0x0000 /* Don't care */ >> #define NOTIFY_OK 0x0001 /* Suits me */ >> #define NOTIFY_STOP_MASK 0x8000 /* Don't call further */ >> diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c >> index b8251dc0bc0f..b20cb7b9b1f0 100644 >> --- a/kernel/notifier.c >> +++ b/kernel/notifier.c >> @@ -322,6 +322,20 @@ int blocking_notifier_call_chain(struct blocking_notifier_head *nh, >> } >> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blocking_notifier_call_chain); >> >> +/** >> + * blocking_notifier_call_chain_is_empty - Check whether notifier chain is empty >> + * @nh: Pointer to head of the blocking notifier chain >> + * >> + * Checks whether notifier chain is empty. >> + * >> + * Returns true is notifier chain is empty, false otherwise. >> + */ >> +bool blocking_notifier_call_chain_is_empty(struct blocking_notifier_head *nh) >> +{ >> + return !rcu_access_pointer(nh->head); >> +} >> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blocking_notifier_call_chain_is_empty); > > The check is not reliable (racy) without locking, so I wouldn't export > anything like this to modules. > > At least IMO it should be added along with a user. > I'll remove the export since it's indeed not obvious how other users may want to use this function.