Re: [PATCH v6 6/6] lib/dlock-list: Provide IRQ-safe APIs

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Wed, 04 Oct 2017, Waiman Long wrote:

> To enable the use of dlock-list in an interrupt handler, the following
> new APIs are provided for a irqsafe dlock-list:
>
> - void dlock_list_unlock_irqsafe(struct dlock_list_iter *)
> - void dlock_list_relock_irqsafe(struct dlock_list_iter *)
> - void dlock_list_add_irqsafe(struct dlock_list_node *,
> 			       struct dlock_list_head *);
> - void dlock_lists_add_irqsafe(struct dlock_list_node *,
> 				struct dlock_list_heads *)
> - void dlock_lists_del_irqsafe(struct dlock_list_node *)
>
> New macros for irqsafe dlock-list:
>
> - dlist_for_each_entry_irqsafe(pos, iter, member)
> - dlist_for_each_entry_safe_irqsafe(pos, n, iter, member)

Instead of adding more calls to the api, could we not just use the
irqsave/restore as part of the regular api?

Thanks,
Davidlohr