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Thomas Gleixner 74ba9207e1 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 61
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  675 mass ave cambridge ma 02139 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 441 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520071858.739733335@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-24 17:36:45 +02:00
Valentin Vidic de99626c2e include/linux/kfifo.h: fix comment
Clean up unusual formatting in the note about locking.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180324002630.13046-1-Valentin.Vidic@CARNet.hr
Signed-off-by: Valentin Vidic <Valentin.Vidic@CARNet.hr>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-11 10:28:38 -07:00
Sean Young 8a866fee39 kfifo: DECLARE_KIFO_PTR(fifo, u64) does not work on arm 32 bit
If you try to store u64 in a kfifo (or a struct with u64 members),
then the buf member of __STRUCT_KFIFO_PTR will cause 4 bytes
padding due to alignment (note that struct __kfifo is 20 bytes
on 32 bit).

That in turn causes the __is_kfifo_ptr() to fail, which is caught
by kfifo_alloc(), which now returns EINVAL.

So, ensure that __is_kfifo_ptr() compares to the right structure.

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-12-14 10:35:22 -05:00
Christophe JAILLET 24d654fadd kfifo: Fix comments
Fix some typo.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2017-10-12 15:41:05 +02:00
Stefani Seibold 21b2f44315 kfifo: fix sparse complaints
This patch fix complaints by the sparse tool when using kfifo_put() with
non scalar types like structures (i.e.
drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c).

Casting a pointer to the value and read this pointer instead of directly
casting the value will fix this.

The generated code is equal.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
Masanari Iida da3dae54e4 Documentation: Docbook: Fix generated DocBook/kernel-api.xml
This patch fix spelling typo found in DocBook/kernel-api.xml.
It is because the file is generated from the source comments,
I have to fix the comments in source codes.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-09-09 10:34:56 +02:00
Masanari Iida e227867f12 treewide: Fix typo in Documentation/DocBook
This patch fix spelling typo in Documentation/DocBook.
It is because .html and .xml files are generated by make htmldocs,
I have to fix a typo within the source files.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-02-19 14:58:17 +01:00
Stefani Seibold 498d319bb5 kfifo API type safety
This patch enhances the type safety for the kfifo API.  It is now safe
to put const data into a non const FIFO and the API will now generate a
compiler warning when reading from the fifo where the destination
address is pointing to a const variable.

As a side effect the kfifo_put() does now expect the value of an element
instead a pointer to the element.  This was suggested Russell King.  It
make the handling of the kfifo_put easier since there is no need to
create a helper variable for getting the address of a pointer or to pass
integers of different sizes.

IMHO the API break is okay, since there are currently only six users of
kfifo_put().

The code is also cleaner by kicking out the "if (0)" expressions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-15 09:32:23 +09:00
Stefani Seibold 144ecf310e kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() to return a signed int value
Add a new __kfifo_int_must_check_helper() helper function, which is needed
for kfifo_alloc() to return the right signed integer value.

The origin __kfifo_must_check_helper() helper was renamed into
__kfifo_uint_must_check_helper() to show the sign which is expected and
returned.

(And revert the temporary disabling of __kfifo_must_check_helper())

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27 18:03:18 -07:00
Andrew Morton 52c5171214 kfifo: disable __kfifo_must_check_helper()
This helper is wrong: it coerces signed values into unsigned ones, so code
such as

	if (kfifo_alloc(...) < 0) {
		error
	}

will fail to detect the error.

So let's disable __kfifo_must_check_helper() for 2.6.36.

Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-26 16:52:04 -07:00
Huang Ying e0bf1024b3 kfifo: add parenthesis for macro parameter reference
Some macro parameter references inside typeof() operator are not enclosed
with parenthesis.  It should be safer to add them.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-09 18:57:22 -07:00
Andrea Righi b35de43b31 kfifo: implement missing __kfifo_skip_r()
kfifo_skip() is currently broken, due to the missing of the internal
helper function.  Add it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-20 09:34:54 -07:00
Stefani Seibold 2e956fb320 kfifo: replace the old non generic API
Simply replace the whole kfifo.c and kfifo.h files with the new generic
version and fix the kerneldoc API template file.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:23 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day ad9c7ed068 kfifo: kfifo_is_{full,empty} should return bools, not ints
For consistency with other kfifo routines, return bool, not int.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11 08:59:23 -07:00
Jiri Kosina 6c9468e9eb Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2010-04-23 02:08:44 +02:00
David Härdeman 530cd330dc include/linux/kfifo.h: fix INIT_KFIFO()
DECLARE_KFIFO creates a union with a struct kfifo and a buffer array with
size [size + sizeof(struct kfifo)].

INIT_KFIFO then sets the buffer pointer in struct kfifo to point to the
beginning of the buffer array which means that the first call to kfifo_in
will overwrite members of the struct kfifo.

Signed-off-by: David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-04-07 08:38:02 -07:00
David Härdeman 4c87684d32 kfifo: fix KFIFO_INIT in include/linux/kfifo.h
include/linux/kfifo.h first defines and then undefines __kfifo_initializer
which is used by INIT_KFIFO (which is also a macro, so building a module
which uses INIT_KFIFO will fail).

Signed-off-by: David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
Viral Mehta a8d8980737 kfifo: fix kerneldoc for kfifo_avail and kfifo_in_locked
Function argument is not having "len" anywhere;
"len" is later used in kfifo_{in|out}.

So here, it would be appropriate to say,
it copies @n bytes and not @len

Signed-off-by: Viral Mehta <viral.mehta@lntinfotech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-03-18 01:24:38 +01:00
Anton Vorontsov 5a5e0f4c70 kfifo: Don't use integer as NULL pointer
This patch fixes following sparse warnings:

include/linux/kfifo.h:127:25: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
kernel/kfifo.c:83:21: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-16 15:11:08 -08:00
Andi Kleen 5dab600e6a kfifo: document everywhere that size has to be power of two
On my first try using them I missed that the fifos need to be power of
two, resulting in a runtime bug.  Document that requirement everywhere
(and fix one grammar bug)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen d994ffc247 kfifo: add kfifo_initialized
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@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen a5b9e2c106 kfifo: add kfifo_out_peek
In some upcoming code it's useful to peek into a FIFO without permanentely
removing data.  This patch implements a new kfifo_out_peek() to do this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen 64ce1037c5 kfifo: sanitize *_user error handling
Right now for kfifo_*_user it's not easily possible to distingush between
a user copy failing and the FIFO not containing enough data.  The problem
is that both conditions are multiplexed into the same return code.

Avoid this by moving the "copy length" into a separate output parameter
and only return 0/-EFAULT in the main return value.

I didn't fully adapt the weird "record" variants, those seem
to be unused anyways and were rather messy (should they be just removed?)

I would appreciate some double checking if I did all the conversions
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen 8ecc295153 kfifo: use void * pointers for user buffers
The pointers to user buffers are currently unsigned char *, which requires
a lot of casting in the caller for any non-char typed buffers.  Use void *
instead.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Stefani Seibold 7e105057a3 kfifo: fix kfifo_out_locked race bug
Fix a wrong optimization in include/linux/kfifo.h which could cause a race
in kfifo_out_locked.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Reported-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:37 -08:00
Rolf Eike Beer ed656d8dec kfifo: Fix typo in comment
It's DECLARE_KFIFO, not DECLARED_KFIFO.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-30 12:49:17 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 9c717de946 kfifo: fix Error/broken kernel-doc notation
Fix kernel-doc errors and warnings in new header file kfifo.h.
Don't use kernel-doc "/**" for internal functions whose comments
are not in kernel-doc format.

kernel-doc section header names (like "Note:") must be unique
per function.  Looks like I need to document that.

  Error(include/linux/kfifo.h:76): duplicate section name 'Note'
  Warning(include/linux/kfifo.h:88): Excess function parameter 'size' description in 'INIT_KFIFO'
  Error(include/linux/kfifo.h:101): duplicate section name 'Note'
  Warning(include/linux/kfifo.h:257): No description found for parameter 'fifo'
    (many of this last type, from internal functions)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-23 09:30:37 -08:00
Stefani Seibold 86d4880313 kfifo: add record handling functions
Add kfifo_in_rec() - puts some record data into the FIFO
 Add kfifo_out_rec() - gets some record data from the FIFO
 Add kfifo_from_user_rec() - puts some data from user space into the FIFO
 Add kfifo_to_user_rec() - gets data from the FIFO and write it to user space
 Add kfifo_peek_rec() - gets the size of the next FIFO record field
 Add kfifo_skip_rec() - skip the next fifo out record
 Add kfifo_avail_rec() - determinate the number of bytes available in a record FIFO

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold a121f24acc kfifo: add kfifo_skip, kfifo_from_user and kfifo_to_user
Add kfifo_reset_out() for save lockless discard the fifo output
 Add kfifo_skip() to skip a number of output bytes
 Add kfifo_from_user() to copy user space data into the fifo
 Add kfifo_to_user() to copy fifo data to user space

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold 37bdfbbfaa kfifo: add DEFINE_KFIFO and friends, add very tiny functions
Add DECLARE_KFIFO - macro to declare a kfifo and the associated buffer inside a struct
 Add INIT_KFIFO - Initialize a kfifo declared by DECLARED_KFIFO
 Add DEFINE_KFIFO - macro to define and initialize a kfifo as a global or local object
 Add kfifo_size() - returns the size of the fifo in bytes
 Add kfifo_is_empty() - returns true if the fifo is empty
 Add kfifo_is_full() - returns true if the fifo is full
 Add kfifo_avail() - returns the number of bytes available in the FIFO
 Do some code cleanup

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold 9842c38e91 kfifo: fix warn_unused_result
Fix the "ignoring return value of '...', declared with attribute
warn_unused_result" compiler warning in several users of the new kfifo
API.

It removes the __must_check attribute from kfifo_in() and
kfifo_in_locked() which must not necessary performed.

Fix the allocation bug in the nozomi driver file, by moving out the
kfifo_alloc from the interrupt handler into the probe function.

Fix the kfifo_out() and kfifo_out_locked() users to handle a unexpected
end of fifo.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold 7acd72eb85 kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out...
rename kfifo_put...  into kfifo_in...  to prevent miss use of old non in
kernel-tree drivers

ditto for kfifo_get...  -> kfifo_out...

Improve the prototypes of kfifo_in and kfifo_out to make the kerneldoc
annotations more readable.

Add mini "howto porting to the new API" in kfifo.h

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold e64c026dd0 kfifo: cleanup namespace
change name of __kfifo_* functions to kfifo_*, because the prefix __kfifo
should be reserved for internal functions only.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold c1e13f2567 kfifo: move out spinlock
Move the pointer to the spinlock out of struct kfifo.  Most users in
tree do not actually use a spinlock, so the few exceptions now have to
call kfifo_{get,put}_locked, which takes an extra argument to a
spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold 4546548789 kfifo: move struct kfifo in place
This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.

The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to
many constrains.  Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it.
FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles
the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory
resources.

I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use:

 - The API is to simple, important functions are missing
 - A fifo can be only allocated dynamically
 - There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not
 - There is no support for data records inside a fifo

So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up
the API to much.  The new API has the following benefits:

 - Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver.
 - Provide an API for the most use case.
 - Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions.
 - Linux style habit.
 - DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros
 - Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo.
 - The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an
   indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator.
 - Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo,
   which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary.
 - Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if
   one is required.
 - Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported:
   - Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size
     field of 1 bytes.
   - Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size
     field of 2 bytes.
   - Fixed size records, which no record size field.
 - Preserve memory resource.
 - Performance!
 - Easy to use!

This patch:

Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object,
reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data
structure.  This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init
prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them.  This
patch changes the implementation and all existing users.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:55 -08:00
Alan Cox f8a7c1a976 kfifo: Use "const" definitions
Currently kfifo cannot be used by parts of the kernel that use "const"
properly as kfifo itself does not use const for passed data blocks which
are indeed const.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19 13:13:17 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day 735643ee6c Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headers
Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in
linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor
test.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day 72fd4a35a8 [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.
A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in
source files, including:

  * make multi-line initial descriptions single line
  * denote some function names, constants and structs as such
  * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places
  * reword some text for clarity

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
Al Viro dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00