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SubjectRe: + atomic-improve-atomic_inc_unless_negative-atomic_dec_unless_positive .patch added to -mm tree
> From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> Subject: atomic: improve atomic_inc_unless_negative/atomic_dec_unless_positive
>
> Generally, both atomic_inc_unless_negative() and
> atomic_dec_unless_positive() need at least two atomic_cmpxchg() to
> complete the atomic operation. In fact, the 1st atomic_cmpxchg() is just
> used to read current value of the atomic variable at most times.

Agreed, this looks ugly...

But can't we make a simpler patch and keep the code simple/readable ?

Oleg.

--- x/include/linux/atomic.h
+++ x/include/linux/atomic.h
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static inline int atomic_inc_not_zero_hi
static inline int atomic_inc_unless_negative(atomic_t *p)
{
int v, v1;
- for (v = 0; v >= 0; v = v1) {
+ for (v = atomic_read(p); v >= 0; v = v1) {
v1 = atomic_cmpxchg(p, v, v + 1);
if (likely(v1 == v))
return 1;
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static inline int atomic_inc_unless_nega
static inline int atomic_dec_unless_positive(atomic_t *p)
{
int v, v1;
- for (v = 0; v <= 0; v = v1) {
+ for (v = atomic_read(p); v <= 0; v = v1) {
v1 = atomic_cmpxchg(p, v, v - 1);
if (likely(v1 == v))
return 1;


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