tty: Use lockless flip buffer free list

In preparation for lockless flip buffers, make the flip buffer
free list lockless.

NB: using llist is not the optimal solution, as the driver and
buffer work may contend over the llist head unnecessarily. However,
test measurements indicate this contention is low.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/llist.h b/include/linux/llist.h
index cdaa7f0..8828a78 100644
--- a/include/linux/llist.h
+++ b/include/linux/llist.h
@@ -125,6 +125,29 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struct llist_head *list)
 	     (pos) = llist_entry((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member))
 
 /**
+ * llist_for_each_entry_safe - iterate over some deleted entries of lock-less list of given type
+ *			       safe against removal of list entry
+ * @pos:	the type * to use as a loop cursor.
+ * @n:		another type * to use as temporary storage
+ * @node:	the first entry of deleted list entries.
+ * @member:	the name of the llist_node with the struct.
+ *
+ * In general, some entries of the lock-less list can be traversed
+ * safely only after being removed from list, so start with an entry
+ * instead of list head.
+ *
+ * If being used on entries deleted from lock-less list directly, the
+ * traverse order is from the newest to the oldest added entry.  If
+ * you want to traverse from the oldest to the newest, you must
+ * reverse the order by yourself before traversing.
+ */
+#define llist_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, node, member)			       \
+	for (pos = llist_entry((node), typeof(*pos), member);		       \
+	     &pos->member != NULL &&					       \
+	        (n = llist_entry(pos->member.next, typeof(*n), member), true); \
+	     pos = n)
+
+/**
  * llist_empty - tests whether a lock-less list is empty
  * @head:	the list to test
  *