Lockless memory allocator and list

@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ extern void bitmap_release_region(unsign
 extern int bitmap_allocate_region(unsigned long *bitmap, int pos, int order);
 extern void bitmap_copy_le(void *dst, const unsigned long *src, int nbits);
 
+#define BITMAP_FIRST_WORD_MASK(start) (~0UL << ((start) % BITS_PER_LONG))
 #define BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(nbits)					\
 (									\
 	((nbits) % BITS_PER_LONG) ?					\

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@@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ int __bitmap_weight(const unsigned long
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bitmap_weight);
 
-#define BITMAP_FIRST_WORD_MASK(start) (~0UL << ((start) % BITS_PER_LONG))
-
 void bitmap_set(unsigned long *map, int start, int nr)
 {
 	unsigned long *p = map + BIT_WORD(start);

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@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+#ifndef LLIST_H
+#define LLIST_H
+/*
+ * Lock-less NULL terminated single linked list
+ *
+ * If there are multiple producers and multiple consumers, llist_add
+ * can be used in producers and llist_del_all can be used in
+ * consumers.  They can work simultaneously without lock.  But
+ * llist_del_first can not be used here.  Because llist_del_first
+ * depends on list->first->next does not changed if list->first is not
+ * changed during its operation, but llist_del_first, llist_add,
+ * llist_add sequence in another consumer may violate that.
+ *
+ * If there are multiple producers and one consumer, llist_add can be
+ * used in producers and llist_del_all or llist_del_first can be used
+ * in the consumer.
+ *
+ * The list entries deleted via llist_del_all can be traversed with
+ * traversing function such as llist_for_each etc.  But the list
+ * entries can not be traversed safely before deleted from the list
+ * without proper synchronization with the list consumers.
+ */
+
+struct llist_head {
+	struct llist_node *first;
+};
+
+struct llist_node {
+	struct llist_node *next;
+};
+
+#define LLIST_HEAD_INIT(name)	{ NULL }
+#define LLIST_HEAD(name)	struct llist_head name = LLIST_HEAD_INIT(name)
+
+/**
+ * init_llist_head - initialize lock-less list head
+ * @head:	the head for your lock-less list
+ */
+static inline void init_llist_head(struct llist_head *list)
+{
+	list->first = NULL;
+}
+
+/**
+ * llist_entry - get the struct of this entry
+ * @ptr:	the &struct llist_node pointer.
+ * @type:	the type of the struct this is embedded in.
+ * @member:	the name of the llist_node within the struct.
+ */
+#define llist_entry(ptr, type, member)		\
+	container_of(ptr, type, member)
+
+/**
+ * llist_for_each - iterate over some entries of a lock-less list
+ * @pos:	the &struct llist_node to use as a loop cursor
+ * @node:	the first entry of deleted list entries
+ *
+ * In general, some entries of the lock-less list can be traversed
+ * safely only after being deleted from list, so start with an entry
+ * instead of list head.
+ */
+#define llist_for_each(pos, node)			\
+	for (pos = (node); pos; pos = pos->next)
+
+/**
+ * llist_for_each_entry - iterate over some entries of lock-less list of given type
+ * @pos:	the type * to use as a loop cursor.
+ * @node:	the fist entry of deleted list entries.
+ * @member:	the name of the llist_node with the struct.
+ *
+ * In general, some entries of the lock-less list can be traversed
+ * safely only after being removed from list, so start with an entry
+ * instead of list head.
+ */
+#define llist_for_each_entry(pos, node, member)				\
+	for (pos = llist_entry((node), typeof(*pos), member);		\
+	     &pos->member != NULL;					\
+	     pos = llist_entry(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member))
+
+/**
+ * llist_empty - tests whether a lock-less list is empty
+ * @head:	the list to test
+ */
+static inline int llist_empty(const struct llist_head *head)
+{
+	return head->first == NULL;
+}
+
+void llist_add(struct llist_node *new, struct llist_head *head);
+struct llist_node *llist_del_first(struct llist_head *head);
+struct llist_node *llist_del_all(struct llist_head *head);
+#endif /* LLIST_H */

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