kernel-ark/include/linux/rwsem.h
Ingo Molnar 5fca80e8b4 [PATCH] lockdep: add more rwsem.h documentation
Add more documentation to rwsem.h.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:14 -07:00

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/* rwsem.h: R/W semaphores, public interface
*
* Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com).
* Derived from asm-i386/semaphore.h
*/
#ifndef _LINUX_RWSEM_H
#define _LINUX_RWSEM_H
#include <linux/linkage.h>
#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
struct rw_semaphore;
#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
#include <linux/rwsem-spinlock.h> /* use a generic implementation */
#else
#include <asm/rwsem.h> /* use an arch-specific implementation */
#endif
/*
* lock for reading
*/
extern void down_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
/*
* trylock for reading -- returns 1 if successful, 0 if contention
*/
extern int down_read_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
/*
* lock for writing
*/
extern void down_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
/*
* trylock for writing -- returns 1 if successful, 0 if contention
*/
extern int down_write_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
/*
* release a read lock
*/
extern void up_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
/*
* release a write lock
*/
extern void up_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
/*
* downgrade write lock to read lock
*/
extern void downgrade_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
/*
* nested locking. NOTE: rwsems are not allowed to recurse
* (which occurs if the same task tries to acquire the same
* lock instance multiple times), but multiple locks of the
* same lock class might be taken, if the order of the locks
* is always the same. This ordering rule can be expressed
* to lockdep via the _nested() APIs, but enumerating the
* subclasses that are used. (If the nesting relationship is
* static then another method for expressing nested locking is
* the explicit definition of lock class keys and the use of
* lockdep_set_class() at lock initialization time.
* See Documentation/lockdep-design.txt for more details.)
*/
extern void down_read_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);
extern void down_write_nested(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int subclass);
/*
* Take/release a lock when not the owner will release it.
*
* [ This API should be avoided as much as possible - the
* proper abstraction for this case is completions. ]
*/
extern void down_read_non_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void up_read_non_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
#else
# define down_read_nested(sem, subclass) down_read(sem)
# define down_write_nested(sem, subclass) down_write(sem)
# define down_read_non_owner(sem) down_read(sem)
# define up_read_non_owner(sem) up_read(sem)
#endif
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_RWSEM_H */