rcu: Provide a get_completed_synchronize_rcu() function

It is currently up to the caller to handle stale return values from
get_state_synchronize_rcu().  If poll_state_synchronize_rcu() returned
true once, a grace period has elapsed, regardless of the fact that counter
wrap might cause some future poll_state_synchronize_rcu() invocation to
return false.  For example, the caller might store a separate flag that
indicates whether some previous call to poll_state_synchronize_rcu()
determined that the relevant grace period had already ended.

This approach works, but it requires extra storage and is easy to get
wrong.  This commit therefore introduces a get_completed_synchronize_rcu()
that returns a cookie that causes poll_state_synchronize_rcu() to always
return true.  This already-completed cookie can be stored in place of the
cookie that previously caused poll_state_synchronize_rcu() to return true.
It can also be used to flag a given structure as not having been exposed
to readers, and thus not requiring a grace period to elapse.

This commit is in preparation for polled expedited grace periods.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220121142454.1994916-1-bfoster@redhat.com/
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNKWW9jQyfjxw2E8dsXVTdvZYh0HnYeSHDKog9jhdN8/edit?usp=sharing
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 1a32036c918c..7f12daa4708b 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ void call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func);
 void rcu_barrier_tasks(void);
 void rcu_barrier_tasks_rude(void);
 void synchronize_rcu(void);
+unsigned long get_completed_synchronize_rcu(void);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU