Function is going to be used in transport over RDMA module in subsequent patches. Function returns next element in round-robin fashion, i.e. head will be skipped. NULL will be returned if list is observed as empty. Signed-off-by: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- include/linux/rculist.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/rculist.h b/include/linux/rculist.h index 127f534fec94..b0840d5ab25a 100644 --- a/include/linux/rculist.h +++ b/include/linux/rculist.h @@ -339,6 +339,25 @@ static inline void list_splice_tail_init_rcu(struct list_head *list, }) /** + * list_next_or_null_rr_rcu - get next list element in round-robin fashion. + * @head: the head for the list. + * @ptr: the list head to take the next element from. + * @type: the type of the struct this is embedded in. + * @memb: the name of the list_head within the struct. + * + * Next element returned in round-robin fashion, i.e. head will be skipped, + * but if list is observed as empty, NULL will be returned. + * + * This primitive may safely run concurrently with the _rcu list-mutation + * primitives such as list_add_rcu() as long as it's guarded by rcu_read_lock(). + */ +#define list_next_or_null_rr_rcu(head, ptr, type, memb) \ +({ \ + list_next_or_null_rcu(head, ptr, type, memb) ?: \ + list_next_or_null_rcu(head, READ_ONCE((ptr)->next), type, memb); \ +}) + +/** * list_for_each_entry_rcu - iterate over rcu list of given type * @pos: the type * to use as a loop cursor. * @head: the head for your list. -- 2.13.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html