rculist.h: Add list_tail_rcu()

This patch adds the macro list_tail_rcu() and documents it.

Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Reword a bit. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Madhuparna Bhowmik 2019-12-09 13:20:43 +05:30 committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 459b528706
commit afa47fdfa2

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@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU(struct list_head *list)
*/
#define list_next_rcu(list) (*((struct list_head __rcu **)(&(list)->next)))
/**
* list_tail_rcu - returns the prev pointer of the head of the list
* @head: the head of the list
*
* Note: This should only be used with the list header, and even then
* only if list_del() and similar primitives are not also used on the
* list header.
*/
#define list_tail_rcu(head) (*((struct list_head __rcu **)(&(head)->prev)))
/*
* Check during list traversal that we are within an RCU reader
*/