Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu

Pull RCU and LKMM changes from Paul E. McKenney:

  - Documentation updates.

  - Miscellaneous fixes.

  - Dynamic tick (nohz) updates, perhaps most notably changes to
    force the tick on when needed due to lengthy in-kernel execution
    on CPUs on which RCU is waiting.

  - Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_prepace_pointer().

  - Torture-test updates.

  - Linux-kernel memory consistency model updates.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 75a2eded7aa2..185dd9736863 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -383,6 +383,24 @@ do {									      \
 } while (0)
 
 /**
+ * rcu_replace_pointer() - replace an RCU pointer, returning its old value
+ * @rcu_ptr: RCU pointer, whose old value is returned
+ * @ptr: regular pointer
+ * @c: the lockdep conditions under which the dereference will take place
+ *
+ * Perform a replacement, where @rcu_ptr is an RCU-annotated
+ * pointer and @c is the lockdep argument that is passed to the
+ * rcu_dereference_protected() call used to read that pointer.  The old
+ * value of @rcu_ptr is returned, and @rcu_ptr is set to @ptr.
+ */
+#define rcu_replace_pointer(rcu_ptr, ptr, c)				\
+({									\
+	typeof(ptr) __tmp = rcu_dereference_protected((rcu_ptr), (c));	\
+	rcu_assign_pointer((rcu_ptr), (ptr));				\
+	__tmp;								\
+})
+
+/**
  * rcu_swap_protected() - swap an RCU and a regular pointer
  * @rcu_ptr: RCU pointer
  * @ptr: regular pointer