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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h b/drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h index 74cf01144..54352f009 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h +++ b/drivers/md/dm-bio-prison.h @@ -101,6 +101,19 @@ void dm_cell_visit_release(struct dm_bio_prison *prison, void (*visit_fn)(void *, struct dm_bio_prison_cell *), void *context, struct dm_bio_prison_cell *cell); +/* + * Rather than always releasing the prisoners in a cell, the client may + * want to promote one of them to be the new holder. There is a race here + * though between releasing an empty cell, and other threads adding new + * inmates. So this function makes the decision with its lock held. + * + * This function can have two outcomes: + * i) An inmate is promoted to be the holder of the cell (return value of 0). + * ii) The cell has no inmate for promotion and is released (return value of 1). + */ +int dm_cell_promote_or_release(struct dm_bio_prison *prison, + struct dm_bio_prison_cell *cell); + /*----------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* |