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From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	ying.huang@intel.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: [PATCH -mm -v8 0/3] Lockless memory allocator and list
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:59:01 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292482744-12953-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> (raw)

This patchset adds a lockless memory allocator and a lock-less
list.

v8:

- Rebased on mmotm 2010-12-02

v7:

- Revise ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG definition for some architectures
  according to architecture maitainers' comments.
- Remove spin_trylock_irqsave based fallback for lockless memory allocator,
  because it does not work for !CONFIG_SMP and is not likely to be used.
- Make lockless memory allocator and list does not depend on
  ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG.  Instead, require the user to depend on it
  when needed. And BUG_ON(in_nmi()) is added in necessary place to prevent
  silent race.

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 -mm -v8 1/3] Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
[PATCH -mm -v8 2/3] lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless
[PATCH -mm -v8 3/3] lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list

             reply	other threads:[~2010-12-16  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-16  6:59 Huang Ying [this message]
2010-12-16  6:59 ` [PATCH -mm -v8 1/3] Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG Huang Ying
2010-12-16  6:59 ` [PATCH -mm -v8 2/3] lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless Huang Ying
2010-12-16  6:59 ` [PATCH -mm -v8 3/3] lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list Huang Ying
2010-12-16  9:24 ` [PATCH -mm -v8 0/3] Lockless memory allocator and list Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-17  0:20   ` Huang Ying
2010-12-17 12:22     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-12-17 15:35       ` huang ying
2010-12-17 16:22         ` Thomas Gleixner

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