The patch titled kfifo: add kfifo_initialized has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kfifo-add-kfifo_initialized.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kfifo: add kfifo_initialized From: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Simple inline that checks if kfifo_init() has been executed on a fifo. This is useful for walking all per CPU fifos, when some of them might not have been brought up yet. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/kfifo.h | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/kfifo.h~kfifo-add-kfifo_initialized include/linux/kfifo.h --- a/include/linux/kfifo.h~kfifo-add-kfifo_initialized +++ a/include/linux/kfifo.h @@ -116,6 +116,16 @@ extern __must_check unsigned int kfifo_o extern __must_check unsigned int kfifo_out_peek(struct kfifo *fifo, void *to, unsigned int len, unsigned offset); +/** + * kfifo_initialized - Check if kfifo is initialized. + * @fifo: fifo to check + * Return %true if FIFO is initialized, otherwise %false. + * Assumes the fifo was 0 before. + */ +static inline bool kfifo_initialized(struct kfifo *fifo) +{ + return fifo->buffer != 0; +} /** * kfifo_reset - removes the entire FIFO contents _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch kernel-signalc-fix-kernel-information-leak-with-print-fatal-signals=1.patch kfifo-use-void-pointers-for-user-buffers.patch kfifo-make-kfifo_in-atomic.patch kfifo-sanitize-_user-error-handling.patch kfifo-add-kfifo_out_peek.patch kfifo-add-kfifo_initialized.patch kfifo-document-everywhere-that-size-has-to-be-power-of-two.patch hardware-latency-detector-remove-default-m.patch kbuild-move-fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm-to-powerpc-only.patch mm-introduce-dump_page-and-print-symbolic-flag-names.patch tracehooks-kill-some-pt_ptraced-checks.patch tracehooks-check-pt_ptraced-before-reporting-the-single-step.patch ptrace_signal-check-pt_ptraced-before-reporting-a-signal.patch export-__ptrace_detach-and-do_notify_parent_cldstop.patch reorder-the-code-in-kernel-ptracec.patch implement-utrace-ptrace.patch utrace-core.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html