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Peter Zijlstra
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[ Upstream commitcc39f3872c] The read_seqbegin/need_seqretry/done_seqretry API is cumbersome and error prone. With the new helper the "typical" code like int seq, nextseq; unsigned long flags; nextseq = 0; do { seq = nextseq; flags = read_seqbegin_or_lock_irqsave(&seqlock, &seq); // read-side critical section nextseq = 1; } while (need_seqretry(&seqlock, seq)); done_seqretry_irqrestore(&seqlock, seq, flags); can be rewritten as scoped_seqlock_read (&seqlock, ss_lock_irqsave) { // read-side critical section } Original idea by Oleg Nesterov; with contributions from Linus. Originally-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Stable-dep-of:6650527444("proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (part 1)") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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