From: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:08:37 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [LIST]: Add docbook header comments for hlist_add_{before,after}_rcu()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~1035^2~19
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf4ef01440ca5c6d96f2ea2b793a37a0a863a045;p=linux-2.6

[LIST]: Add docbook header comments for hlist_add_{before,after}_rcu()

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index 9b9b0eec1e..e6ec596822 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -634,6 +634,21 @@ static inline void hlist_add_after(struct hlist_node *n,
 		next->next->pprev  = &next->next;
 }
 
+/**
+ * hlist_add_before_rcu - adds the specified element to the specified hlist
+ * before the specified node while permitting racing traversals.
+ * @n: the new element to add to the hash list.
+ * @next: the existing element to add the new element before.
+ *
+ * The caller must take whatever precautions are necessary
+ * (such as holding appropriate locks) to avoid racing
+ * with another list-mutation primitive, such as hlist_add_head_rcu()
+ * or hlist_del_rcu(), running on this same list.
+ * However, it is perfectly legal to run concurrently with
+ * the _rcu list-traversal primitives, such as
+ * hlist_for_each_rcu(), used to prevent memory-consistency
+ * problems on Alpha CPUs.
+ */
 static inline void hlist_add_before_rcu(struct hlist_node *n,
 					struct hlist_node *next)
 {
@@ -644,6 +659,21 @@ static inline void hlist_add_before_rcu(struct hlist_node *n,
 	*(n->pprev) = n;
 }
 
+/**
+ * hlist_add_after_rcu - adds the specified element to the specified hlist
+ * after the specified node while permitting racing traversals.
+ * @prev: the existing element to add the new element after.
+ * @n: the new element to add to the hash list.
+ *
+ * The caller must take whatever precautions are necessary
+ * (such as holding appropriate locks) to avoid racing
+ * with another list-mutation primitive, such as hlist_add_head_rcu()
+ * or hlist_del_rcu(), running on this same list.
+ * However, it is perfectly legal to run concurrently with
+ * the _rcu list-traversal primitives, such as
+ * hlist_for_each_rcu(), used to prevent memory-consistency
+ * problems on Alpha CPUs.
+ */
 static inline void hlist_add_after_rcu(struct hlist_node *prev,
 				       struct hlist_node *n)
 {