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authorFranck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>2008-05-12 21:21:05 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-05-19 10:01:37 +0200
commit82524746c27fa418c250a56dd7606b9d3fc79826 (patch)
tree1801230b8fc2e436e722ac6f54fc53f1c112c310 /drivers
parent32300751b4079cb5688453baa94711579d4285d5 (diff)
rcu: split list.h and move rcu-protected lists into rculist.h
Move rcu-protected lists from list.h into a new header file rculist.h. This is done because list are a very used primitive structure all over the kernel and it's currently impossible to include other header files in this list.h without creating some circular dependencies. For example, list.h implements rcu-protected list and uses rcu_dereference() without including rcupdate.h. It actually compiles because users of rcu_dereference() are macros. Others RCU functions could be used too but aren't probably because of this. Therefore this patch creates rculist.h which includes rcupdates without to many changes/troubles. Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs.c1
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs_mcast.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macvlan.c2
3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs.c
index e0ec540042bf..5d830d87ebca 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#include <rdma/ib_user_verbs.h>
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
+#include <linux/rculist.h>
#include "ipath_kernel.h"
#include "ipath_verbs.h"
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs_mcast.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs_mcast.c
index 9e5abf9c309d..d73e32232879 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs_mcast.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs_mcast.c
@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@
* SOFTWARE.
*/
-#include <linux/list.h>
-#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include <linux/rculist.h>
#include "ipath_verbs.h"
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index c36a03ae9bfb..860d75d81f82 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
-#include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/rculist.h>
#include <linux/notifier.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/etherdevice.h>