On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 05:14:25PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Paul E. McKenney
> <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 04:42:20PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:39 PM, <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 04:35:27PM -0400, Dan Streetman wrote:
> >> >> Add list_last_or_null_rcu(), to simplify getting the last entry from a
> >> >> rcu-protected list. The standard list_last_entry() can't be used as it
> >> >> is not rcu-protected; the list may be modified concurrently. And the
> >> >> ->prev pointer can't be used, as only the ->next pointers are protected
> >> >> by rcu.
> >> >>
> >> >> This simply iterates forward through the entire list, to get to the last
> >> >> entry. If the list is empty, it returns NULL.
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstr...@ieee.org>
> >> >
> >> > The list iteration functions are macros because they introduce a loop
> >> > with attached loop block. For this, is there any reason not to make it
> >> > an inline function instead of a macro?
> >>
> >> true, there's no reason i can see not to make it inline, let me send
> >> an updated patch.
> >
> > Hmmm... If we can now do type-generic inline functions, it might make
> > sense to convert some of the others as well.
>
> oh, ok. how do we do type-generic inline funcs? return void*?
I was hoping that you would tell me. I use macros in that case.
Thanx, Paul
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