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* treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 61Thomas Gleixner2019-05-241-15/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* include/linux/kfifo.h: fix commentValentin Vidic2018-04-111-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: DECLARE_KIFO_PTR(fifo, u64) does not work on arm 32 bitSean Young2017-12-141-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: Fix commentsChristophe JAILLET2017-10-121-3/+3
| | | | | | | Fix some typo. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* kfifo: fix sparse complaintsStefani Seibold2016-03-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Documentation: Docbook: Fix generated DocBook/kernel-api.xmlMasanari Iida2014-09-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* treewide: Fix typo in Documentation/DocBookMasanari Iida2014-02-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo API type safetyStefani Seibold2013-11-151-33/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: fix kfifo_alloc() to return a signed int valueStefani Seibold2010-10-271-12/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: disable __kfifo_must_check_helper()Andrew Morton2010-10-261-5/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: add parenthesis for macro parameter referenceHuang Ying2010-09-091-29/+29
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: implement missing __kfifo_skip_r()Andrea Righi2010-08-201-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: replace the old non generic APIStefani Seibold2010-08-111-482/+711
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: kfifo_is_{full,empty} should return bools, not intsRobert P. J. Day2010-08-111-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina2010-04-231-3/+2
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| * include/linux/kfifo.h: fix INIT_KFIFO()David Härdeman2010-04-071-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * kfifo: fix KFIFO_INIT in include/linux/kfifo.hDavid Härdeman2010-03-241-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | kfifo: fix kerneldoc for kfifo_avail and kfifo_in_lockedViral Mehta2010-03-181-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: Don't use integer as NULL pointerAnton Vorontsov2010-02-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: document everywhere that size has to be power of twoAndi Kleen2010-01-161-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: add kfifo_initializedAndi Kleen2010-01-161-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: add kfifo_out_peekAndi Kleen2010-01-161-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: sanitize *_user error handlingAndi Kleen2010-01-161-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: use void * pointers for user buffersAndi Kleen2010-01-161-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: fix kfifo_out_locked race bugStefani Seibold2010-01-161-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: Fix typo in commentRolf Eike Beer2009-12-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: fix Error/broken kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap2009-12-231-16/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: add record handling functionsStefani Seibold2009-12-221-0/+330
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: add kfifo_skip, kfifo_from_user and kfifo_to_userStefani Seibold2009-12-221-0/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: add DEFINE_KFIFO and friends, add very tiny functionsStefani Seibold2009-12-221-2/+92
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: fix warn_unused_resultStefani Seibold2009-12-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out...Stefani Seibold2009-12-221-10/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: cleanup namespaceStefani Seibold2009-12-221-25/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: move out spinlockStefani Seibold2009-12-221-45/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: move struct kfifo in placeStefani Seibold2009-12-221-5/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* kfifo: Use "const" definitionsAlan Cox2009-09-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headersRobert P. J. Day2008-04-301-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.Robert P. J. Day2007-02-111-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1Al Viro2005-10-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | - 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>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+157
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!