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Latch sequence counters are a multiversion concurrency control mechanism where the seqcount_t counter even/odd value is used to switch between two data storage copies. This allows the seqcount_t read path to safely interrupt its write side critical section (e.g. from NMIs). Initially, latch sequence counters were implemented as a single write function, raw_write_seqcount_latch(), above plain seqcount_t. The read path was expected to use plain seqcount_t raw_read_seqcount(). A specialized read function was later added, raw_read_seqcount_latch(), and became the standardized way for latch read paths. Having unique read and write APIs meant that latch sequence counters are basically a data type of their own -- just inappropriately overloading plain seqcount_t. The seqcount_latch_t data type was thus introduced at seqlock.h. Use that new data type instead of seqcount_raw_spinlock_t. This ensures that only latch-safe APIs are to be used with the sequence counter. Note that the use of seqcount_raw_spinlock_t was not very useful in the first place. Only the "raw_" subset of seqcount_t APIs were used at timekeeping.c. This subset was created for contexts where lockdep cannot be used. seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t's raison d'être -- verifying that the seqcount_t writer serialization lock is held -- cannot thus be done. References: |
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| clocksource.c | ||
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| itimer.c | ||
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| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| namespace.c | ||
| ntp.c | ||
| ntp_internal.h | ||
| posix-clock.c | ||
| posix-cpu-timers.c | ||
| posix-stubs.c | ||
| posix-timers.c | ||
| posix-timers.h | ||
| sched_clock.c | ||
| test_udelay.c | ||
| tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c | ||
| tick-broadcast.c | ||
| tick-common.c | ||
| tick-internal.h | ||
| tick-oneshot.c | ||
| tick-sched.c | ||
| tick-sched.h | ||
| time.c | ||
| timeconst.bc | ||
| timeconv.c | ||
| timecounter.c | ||
| timekeeping.c | ||
| timekeeping.h | ||
| timekeeping_debug.c | ||
| timekeeping_internal.h | ||
| timer.c | ||
| timer_list.c | ||
| vsyscall.c | ||