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authorJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-11 10:41:07 +0300
committerJosé Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>2016-04-13 08:17:18 +0300
commite09b41010ba33a20a87472ee821fa407a5b8da36 (patch)
treed10dc367189862e7ca5c592f033dc3726e1df4e3 /kernel/drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h
parentf93b97fd65072de626c074dbe099a1fff05ce060 (diff)
These changes are the raw update to linux-4.4.6-rt14. Kernel sources
are taken from kernel.org, and rt patch from the rt wiki download page. During the rebasing, the following patch collided: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic(I70131fb85). Collisions have been removed because its logic was found on the source already. Change-Id: I7f57a4081d9deaa0d9ccfc41a6c8daccdee3b769 Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h b/kernel/drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h
index 74cf01144..54352f009 100644
--- a/kernel/drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h
+++ b/kernel/drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h
@@ -101,6 +101,19 @@ void dm_cell_visit_release(struct dm_bio_prison *prison,
void (*visit_fn)(void *, struct dm_bio_prison_cell *),
void *context, struct dm_bio_prison_cell *cell);
+/*
+ * Rather than always releasing the prisoners in a cell, the client may
+ * want to promote one of them to be the new holder. There is a race here
+ * though between releasing an empty cell, and other threads adding new
+ * inmates. So this function makes the decision with its lock held.
+ *
+ * This function can have two outcomes:
+ * i) An inmate is promoted to be the holder of the cell (return value of 0).
+ * ii) The cell has no inmate for promotion and is released (return value of 1).
+ */
+int dm_cell_promote_or_release(struct dm_bio_prison *prison,
+ struct dm_bio_prison_cell *cell);
+
/*----------------------------------------------------------------*/
/*