From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754706Ab0K2HD2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:03:28 -0500 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:52747 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751275Ab0K2HD1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:03:27 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.59,275,1288594800"; d="scan'208";a="354286236" From: Huang Ying To: Len Brown Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , ying.huang@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Subject: [PATCH -v6 0/3] Lockless memory allocator and list Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:03:18 +0800 Message-Id: <1291014201-15513-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.2.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patchset adds a lockless memory allocator and a lock-less list. v6: - Revise ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG definition for some architectures according to architecture maitainers' comments. v5: - Add ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG - Add spin_trylock_irqsave based fallback in lockless memory allocator if ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG=n - Make lockless list depends on ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG v4: - Split from APEI patchset - Update patch description and comments according to ML comments v3: - Rework lockless memory allocator and list according to ML comments [PATCH -v6 1/3] Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG [PATCH -v6 2/3] lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless [PATCH -v6 3/3] lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list