On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 11:39 +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau MonnĂ© <[email protected]>
> Cc: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Huang Ying <[email protected]>

> ---
> Changes since v3:
>  * Change n to use type *, to keep the same semantics as
>    list_for_each_entry_safe.
> Changes since v2:
>  * Allow to pass a NULL node as the first entry of deleted list
>    entries.
> ---
>  include/linux/llist.h |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/llist.h b/include/linux/llist.h
> index a5199f6..f551ac4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/llist.h
> +++ b/include/linux/llist.h
> @@ -125,6 +125,35 @@ static inline void init_llist_head(struct llist_head 
> *list)
>            (pos) = llist_entry((pos)->member.next, typeof(*(pos)), member))
>  
>  /**
> + * llist_for_each_entry_safe - safely iterate over some deleted entries of
> + *                             lock-less list of given type
> + * @pos:     the type * to use as a loop cursor.
> + * @n:               another type * to use as temporary storage
> + * @node:    the fist 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.
> + *
> + * n is used to store a reference to the next item llist_node, so
> + * pos can be freed while iterating.
> + */
> +#define llist_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, node, member)              \
> +     for ((pos) = llist_entry((node), typeof(*(pos)), member),       \
> +          (n) = llist_entry(((&(pos)->member != NULL) ?              \
> +              (pos)->member.next : NULL), typeof(*(pos)), member);   \
> +          &(pos)->member != NULL;                                    \
> +          (pos) = n,                                                 \
> +          (n) = llist_entry(((&(pos)->member != NULL) ?              \
> +              (pos)->member.next : NULL), typeof(*(pos)), member))
> +
> +/**
>   * llist_empty - tests whether a lock-less list is empty
>   * @head:    the list to test
>   *


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