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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>
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