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Revision 559cf710b07c5e2cfa3fb8d8f4a1320fd84c53f9 authored by Vlad Yasevich on 16 September 2007, 23:03:28 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 16 September 2007, 23:03:28 UTC 
[SCTP]: Convert bind_addr_list locking to RCU
 
Since the sctp_sockaddr_entry is now RCU enabled as part of
the patch to synchronize sctp_localaddr_list, it makes sense to
change all handling of these entries to RCU.  This includes the
sctp_bind_addrs structure and it's list of bound addresses.

This list is currently protected by an external rw_lock and that
looks like an overkill.  There are only 2 writers to the list:
bind()/bindx() calls, and BH processing of ASCONF-ACK chunks.
These are already seriealized via the socket lock, so they will
not step on each other.  These are also relatively rare, so we
should be good with RCU.

The readers are varied and they are easily converted to RCU.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samdurala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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#
# Kbuild for top-level directory of the kernel
# This file takes care of the following:
# 1) Generate asm-offsets.h
# 2) Check for missing system calls

#####
# 1) Generate asm-offsets.h
#

offsets-file := include/asm-$(ARCH)/asm-offsets.h

always  := $(offsets-file)
targets := $(offsets-file)
targets += arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s
clean-files := $(addprefix $(objtree)/,$(targets))

# Default sed regexp - multiline due to syntax constraints
define sed-y
	"/^->/{s:^->\([^ ]*\) [\$$#]*\([^ ]*\) \(.*\):#define \1 \2 /* \3 */:; s:->::; p;}"
endef
# Override default regexp for specific architectures
sed-$(CONFIG_MIPS) := "/^@@@/{s/^@@@//; s/ \#.*\$$//; p;}"

quiet_cmd_offsets = GEN     $@
define cmd_offsets
	(set -e; \
	 echo "#ifndef __ASM_OFFSETS_H__"; \
	 echo "#define __ASM_OFFSETS_H__"; \
	 echo "/*"; \
	 echo " * DO NOT MODIFY."; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " * This file was generated by Kbuild"; \
	 echo " *"; \
	 echo " */"; \
	 echo ""; \
	 sed -ne $(sed-y) $<; \
	 echo ""; \
	 echo "#endif" ) > $@
endef

# We use internal kbuild rules to avoid the "is up to date" message from make
arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s: arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.c FORCE
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call if_changed_dep,cc_s_c)

$(obj)/$(offsets-file): arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s Kbuild
	$(Q)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
	$(call cmd,offsets)

#####
# 2) Check for missing system calls
#

quiet_cmd_syscalls = CALL    $<
      cmd_syscalls = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(CC) $(c_flags)

PHONY += missing-syscalls
missing-syscalls: scripts/checksyscalls.sh FORCE
	$(call cmd,syscalls)
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