From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:03:05 +0200
Subject: ptr_ring: document usage around __ptr_ring_peek
Patch-mainline: v4.15-rc9
Git-commit: 66940f35d5a81d5969bb5543171c70a434fc5110
References: bsc#1109837

This explains why is the net usage of __ptr_ring_peek
actually ok without locks.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 include/linux/ptr_ring.h |   14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptr_ring.h
@@ -174,6 +174,15 @@ static inline int ptr_ring_produce_bh(st
  * if they dereference the pointer - see e.g. PTR_RING_PEEK_CALL.
  * If ring is never resized, and if the pointer is merely
  * tested, there's no need to take the lock - see e.g.  __ptr_ring_empty.
+ * However, if called outside the lock, and if some other CPU
+ * consumes ring entries at the same time, the value returned
+ * is not guaranteed to be correct.
+ * In this case - to avoid incorrectly detecting the ring
+ * as empty - the CPU consuming the ring entries is responsible
+ * for either consuming all ring entries until the ring is empty,
+ * or synchronizing with some other CPU and causing it to
+ * execute __ptr_ring_peek and/or consume the ring enteries
+ * after the synchronization point.
  */
 static inline void *__ptr_ring_peek(struct ptr_ring *r)
 {
@@ -182,10 +191,7 @@ static inline void *__ptr_ring_peek(stru
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-/* Note: callers invoking this in a loop must use a compiler barrier,
- * for example cpu_relax(). Callers must take consumer_lock
- * if the ring is ever resized - see e.g. ptr_ring_empty.
- */
+/* See __ptr_ring_peek above for locking rules. */
 static inline bool __ptr_ring_empty(struct ptr_ring *r)
 {
 	return !__ptr_ring_peek(r);