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Subject[PATCH v2 3/3] bitops.h: set_mask_bits() to return old value
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| > Also, set_mask_bits is used in fs quite a bit and we can possibly come up
| > with a generic llsc based implementation (w/o the cmpxchg loop)
|
| May I also suggest changing the return value of set_mask_bits() to old.
|
| You can compute the new value given old, but you cannot compute the old
| value given new, therefore old is the better return value. Also, no
| current user seems to use the return value, so changing it is without
| risk.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150807110955.GH16853@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
---
include/linux/bitops.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/bitops.h b/include/linux/bitops.h
index 705f7c442691..602af23b98c7 100644
--- a/include/linux/bitops.h
+++ b/include/linux/bitops.h
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static __always_inline void __assign_bit(long nr, volatile unsigned long *addr,
new__ = (old__ & ~mask__) | bits__; \
} while (cmpxchg(ptr, old__, new__) != old__); \
\
- new__; \
+ old__; \
})
#endif

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2.7.4
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