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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-01-23 11:37:19 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-01-23 11:37:19 -0800 |
commit | 4703d9119972bf586d2cca76ec6438f819ffa30e (patch) | |
tree | dcfa2b44c5b613252b974b42471f5220ca4e81b6 /Documentation/core-api | |
parent | 34597c85be987cc731a840fa0c9bb969c92bd986 (diff) | |
parent | 00ed452c210a0bc1ff3ee79e1ce6b199f00a0638 (diff) | |
download | linux-4703d9119972bf586d2cca76ec6438f819ffa30e.tar.bz2 |
Merge tag 'xarray-5.5' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax
Pull XArray fixes from Matthew Wilcox:
"Primarily bugfixes, mostly around handling index wrap-around
correctly.
A couple of doc fixes and adding missing APIs.
I had an oops live on stage at linux.conf.au this year, and it turned
out to be a bug in xas_find() which I can't prove isn't triggerable in
the current codebase. Then in looking for the bug, I spotted two more
bugs.
The bots have had a few days to chew on this with no problems
reported, and it passes the test-suite (which now has more tests to
make sure these problems don't come back)"
* tag 'xarray-5.5' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax:
XArray: Add xa_for_each_range
XArray: Fix xas_find returning too many entries
XArray: Fix xa_find_after with multi-index entries
XArray: Fix infinite loop with entry at ULONG_MAX
XArray: Add wrappers for nested spinlocks
XArray: Improve documentation of search marks
XArray: Fix xas_pause at ULONG_MAX
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst | 70 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst index fcedc5349ace..640934b6f7b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst @@ -25,10 +25,6 @@ good performance with large indices. If your index can be larger than ``ULONG_MAX`` then the XArray is not the data type for you. The most important user of the XArray is the page cache. -Each non-``NULL`` entry in the array has three bits associated with -it called marks. Each mark may be set or cleared independently of -the others. You can iterate over entries which are marked. - Normal pointers may be stored in the XArray directly. They must be 4-byte aligned, which is true for any pointer returned from kmalloc() and alloc_page(). It isn't true for arbitrary user-space pointers, @@ -41,12 +37,11 @@ When you retrieve an entry from the XArray, you can check whether it is a value entry by calling xa_is_value(), and convert it back to an integer by calling xa_to_value(). -Some users want to store tagged pointers instead of using the marks -described above. They can call xa_tag_pointer() to create an -entry with a tag, xa_untag_pointer() to turn a tagged entry -back into an untagged pointer and xa_pointer_tag() to retrieve -the tag of an entry. Tagged pointers use the same bits that are used -to distinguish value entries from normal pointers, so each user must +Some users want to tag the pointers they store in the XArray. You can +call xa_tag_pointer() to create an entry with a tag, xa_untag_pointer() +to turn a tagged entry back into an untagged pointer and xa_pointer_tag() +to retrieve the tag of an entry. Tagged pointers use the same bits that +are used to distinguish value entries from normal pointers, so you must decide whether they want to store value entries or tagged pointers in any particular XArray. @@ -56,10 +51,9 @@ conflict with value entries or internal entries. An unusual feature of the XArray is the ability to create entries which occupy a range of indices. Once stored to, looking up any index in the range will return the same entry as looking up any other index in -the range. Setting a mark on one index will set it on all of them. -Storing to any index will store to all of them. Multi-index entries can -be explicitly split into smaller entries, or storing ``NULL`` into any -entry will cause the XArray to forget about the range. +the range. Storing to any index will store to all of them. Multi-index +entries can be explicitly split into smaller entries, or storing ``NULL`` +into any entry will cause the XArray to forget about the range. Normal API ========== @@ -87,17 +81,11 @@ If you want to only store a new entry to an index if the current entry at that index is ``NULL``, you can use xa_insert() which returns ``-EBUSY`` if the entry is not empty. -You can enquire whether a mark is set on an entry by using -xa_get_mark(). If the entry is not ``NULL``, you can set a mark -on it by using xa_set_mark() and remove the mark from an entry by -calling xa_clear_mark(). You can ask whether any entry in the -XArray has a particular mark set by calling xa_marked(). - You can copy entries out of the XArray into a plain array by calling -xa_extract(). Or you can iterate over the present entries in -the XArray by calling xa_for_each(). You may prefer to use -xa_find() or xa_find_after() to move to the next present -entry in the XArray. +xa_extract(). Or you can iterate over the present entries in the XArray +by calling xa_for_each(), xa_for_each_start() or xa_for_each_range(). +You may prefer to use xa_find() or xa_find_after() to move to the next +present entry in the XArray. Calling xa_store_range() stores the same entry in a range of indices. If you do this, some of the other operations will behave @@ -124,6 +112,31 @@ xa_destroy(). If the XArray entries are pointers, you may wish to free the entries first. You can do this by iterating over all present entries in the XArray using the xa_for_each() iterator. +Search Marks +------------ + +Each entry in the array has three bits associated with it called marks. +Each mark may be set or cleared independently of the others. You can +iterate over marked entries by using the xa_for_each_marked() iterator. + +You can enquire whether a mark is set on an entry by using +xa_get_mark(). If the entry is not ``NULL``, you can set a mark on it +by using xa_set_mark() and remove the mark from an entry by calling +xa_clear_mark(). You can ask whether any entry in the XArray has a +particular mark set by calling xa_marked(). Erasing an entry from the +XArray causes all marks associated with that entry to be cleared. + +Setting or clearing a mark on any index of a multi-index entry will +affect all indices covered by that entry. Querying the mark on any +index will return the same result. + +There is no way to iterate over entries which are not marked; the data +structure does not allow this to be implemented efficiently. There are +not currently iterators to search for logical combinations of bits (eg +iterate over all entries which have both ``XA_MARK_1`` and ``XA_MARK_2`` +set, or iterate over all entries which have ``XA_MARK_0`` or ``XA_MARK_2`` +set). It would be possible to add these if a user arises. + Allocating XArrays ------------------ @@ -180,6 +193,8 @@ No lock needed: Takes RCU read lock: * xa_load() * xa_for_each() + * xa_for_each_start() + * xa_for_each_range() * xa_find() * xa_find_after() * xa_extract() @@ -419,10 +434,9 @@ you last processed. If you have interrupts disabled while iterating, then it is good manners to pause the iteration and reenable interrupts every ``XA_CHECK_SCHED`` entries. -The xas_get_mark(), xas_set_mark() and -xas_clear_mark() functions require the xa_state cursor to have -been moved to the appropriate location in the xarray; they will do -nothing if you have called xas_pause() or xas_set() +The xas_get_mark(), xas_set_mark() and xas_clear_mark() functions require +the xa_state cursor to have been moved to the appropriate location in the +XArray; they will do nothing if you have called xas_pause() or xas_set() immediately before. You can call xas_set_update() to have a callback function |