include/asm-generic/local.h
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/include/asm-generic/local.h
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
include/asm-generic/local.h- Extension
.h- Size
- 2364 bytes
- Lines
- 58
- Domain
- Repository Root And Misc
- Bucket
- include
- Inferred role
- Repository Root And Misc: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Top-level or miscellaneous repository surface. Use this as map coverage unless a later manual pass promotes the file into a deeper subsystem dossier.
- Top-level or miscellaneous repository surface. Use this as map coverage unless a later manual pass promotes the file into a deeper subsystem dossier.
- Uses kernel synchronization; read lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt context assumptions before translating.
Dependency Surface
linux/percpu.hlinux/atomic.hasm/types.h
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
#ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_LOCAL_H
#define _ASM_GENERIC_LOCAL_H
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <asm/types.h>
/*
* A signed long type for operations which are atomic for a single CPU.
* Usually used in combination with per-cpu variables.
*
* This is the default implementation, which uses atomic_long_t. Which is
* rather pointless. The whole point behind local_t is that some processors
* can perform atomic adds and subtracts in a manner which is atomic wrt IRQs
* running on this CPU. local_t allows exploitation of such capabilities.
*/
/* Implement in terms of atomics. */
/* Don't use typedef: don't want them to be mixed with atomic_t's. */
typedef struct
{
atomic_long_t a;
} local_t;
#define LOCAL_INIT(i) { ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(i) }
#define local_read(l) atomic_long_read(&(l)->a)
#define local_set(l,i) atomic_long_set((&(l)->a),(i))
#define local_inc(l) atomic_long_inc(&(l)->a)
#define local_dec(l) atomic_long_dec(&(l)->a)
#define local_add(i,l) atomic_long_add((i),(&(l)->a))
#define local_sub(i,l) atomic_long_sub((i),(&(l)->a))
#define local_sub_and_test(i, l) atomic_long_sub_and_test((i), (&(l)->a))
#define local_dec_and_test(l) atomic_long_dec_and_test(&(l)->a)
#define local_inc_and_test(l) atomic_long_inc_and_test(&(l)->a)
#define local_add_negative(i, l) atomic_long_add_negative((i), (&(l)->a))
#define local_add_return(i, l) atomic_long_add_return((i), (&(l)->a))
#define local_sub_return(i, l) atomic_long_sub_return((i), (&(l)->a))
#define local_inc_return(l) atomic_long_inc_return(&(l)->a)
#define local_cmpxchg(l, o, n) atomic_long_cmpxchg((&(l)->a), (o), (n))
#define local_try_cmpxchg(l, po, n) atomic_long_try_cmpxchg((&(l)->a), (po), (n))
#define local_xchg(l, n) atomic_long_xchg((&(l)->a), (n))
#define local_add_unless(l, _a, u) atomic_long_add_unless((&(l)->a), (_a), (u))
#define local_inc_not_zero(l) atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&(l)->a)
/* Non-atomic variants, ie. preemption disabled and won't be touched
* in interrupt, etc. Some archs can optimize this case well. */
#define __local_inc(l) local_set((l), local_read(l) + 1)
#define __local_dec(l) local_set((l), local_read(l) - 1)
#define __local_add(i,l) local_set((l), local_read(l) + (i))
#define __local_sub(i,l) local_set((l), local_read(l) - (i))
#endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_LOCAL_H */
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/percpu.h`, `linux/atomic.h`, `asm/types.h`.
- Atlas domain: Repository Root And Misc / include.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
- Synchronization appears in or near this file; preserve lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt-context constraints.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.