The patch titled
Subject: kprobes: freelist.h removed
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is
kprobes-freelisth-removed.patch
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From: wuqiang <wuqiang.matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kprobes: freelist.h removed
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 15:14:43 +0800
This patch will remove freelist.h from kernel source tree, since the only
use cases (kretprobe and rethook) are converted to objpool.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221108071443.258794-5-wuqiang.matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: wuqiang <wuqiang.matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sander Vanheule <sander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/freelist.h | 129 -------------------------------------
1 file changed, 129 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/freelist.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause */
-#ifndef FREELIST_H
-#define FREELIST_H
-
-#include <linux/atomic.h>
-
-/*
- * Copyright: cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- *
- * A simple CAS-based lock-free free list. Not the fastest thing in the world
- * under heavy contention, but simple and correct (assuming nodes are never
- * freed until after the free list is destroyed), and fairly speedy under low
- * contention.
- *
- * Adapted from: https://moodycamel.com/blog/2014/solving-the-aba-problem-for-lock-free-free-lists
- */
-
-struct freelist_node {
- atomic_t refs;
- struct freelist_node *next;
-};
-
-struct freelist_head {
- struct freelist_node *head;
-};
-
-#define REFS_ON_FREELIST 0x80000000
-#define REFS_MASK 0x7FFFFFFF
-
-static inline void __freelist_add(struct freelist_node *node, struct freelist_head *list)
-{
- /*
- * Since the refcount is zero, and nobody can increase it once it's
- * zero (except us, and we run only one copy of this method per node at
- * a time, i.e. the single thread case), then we know we can safely
- * change the next pointer of the node; however, once the refcount is
- * back above zero, then other threads could increase it (happens under
- * heavy contention, when the refcount goes to zero in between a load
- * and a refcount increment of a node in try_get, then back up to
- * something non-zero, then the refcount increment is done by the other
- * thread) -- so if the CAS to add the node to the actual list fails,
- * decrese the refcount and leave the add operation to the next thread
- * who puts the refcount back to zero (which could be us, hence the
- * loop).
- */
- struct freelist_node *head = READ_ONCE(list->head);
-
- for (;;) {
- WRITE_ONCE(node->next, head);
- atomic_set_release(&node->refs, 1);
-
- if (!try_cmpxchg_release(&list->head, &head, node)) {
- /*
- * Hmm, the add failed, but we can only try again when
- * the refcount goes back to zero.
- */
- if (atomic_fetch_add_release(REFS_ON_FREELIST - 1, &node->refs) == 1)
- continue;
- }
- return;
- }
-}
-
-static inline void freelist_add(struct freelist_node *node, struct freelist_head *list)
-{
- /*
- * We know that the should-be-on-freelist bit is 0 at this point, so
- * it's safe to set it using a fetch_add.
- */
- if (!atomic_fetch_add_release(REFS_ON_FREELIST, &node->refs)) {
- /*
- * Oh look! We were the last ones referencing this node, and we
- * know we want to add it to the free list, so let's do it!
- */
- __freelist_add(node, list);
- }
-}
-
-static inline struct freelist_node *freelist_try_get(struct freelist_head *list)
-{
- struct freelist_node *prev, *next, *head = smp_load_acquire(&list->head);
- unsigned int refs;
-
- while (head) {
- prev = head;
- refs = atomic_read(&head->refs);
- if ((refs & REFS_MASK) == 0 ||
- !atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire(&head->refs, &refs, refs+1)) {
- head = smp_load_acquire(&list->head);
- continue;
- }
-
- /*
- * Good, reference count has been incremented (it wasn't at
- * zero), which means we can read the next and not worry about
- * it changing between now and the time we do the CAS.
- */
- next = READ_ONCE(head->next);
- if (try_cmpxchg_acquire(&list->head, &head, next)) {
- /*
- * Yay, got the node. This means it was on the list,
- * which means should-be-on-freelist must be false no
- * matter the refcount (because nobody else knows it's
- * been taken off yet, it can't have been put back on).
- */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&head->refs) & REFS_ON_FREELIST);
-
- /*
- * Decrease refcount twice, once for our ref, and once
- * for the list's ref.
- */
- atomic_fetch_add(-2, &head->refs);
-
- return head;
- }
-
- /*
- * OK, the head must have changed on us, but we still need to decrement
- * the refcount we increased.
- */
- refs = atomic_fetch_add(-1, &prev->refs);
- if (refs == REFS_ON_FREELIST + 1)
- __freelist_add(prev, list);
- }
-
- return NULL;
-}
-
-#endif /* FREELIST_H */
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from wuqiang.matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
lib-objpool-added-ring-array-based-lockless-mpmc-queue.patch
lib-objpool-test-module-added.patch
kprobes-kretprobe-scalability-improvement-with-objpool.patch
kprobes-freelisth-removed.patch
