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authorJason A. Donenfeld2016-12-15 06:01:10 +0100
committerDaniel Vetter2016-12-16 08:33:40 +0100
commit56e3d1cd05cc7b24cfcae8714b0661bf607aaba3 (patch)
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parentdrm: Fix kernel docs for drm_helper_mode_fill_fb_struct() (diff)
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kref: prefer atomic_inc_not_zero to atomic_add_unless
On most platforms, there exists this ifdef: #define atomic_inc_not_zero(v) atomic_add_unless((v), 1, 0) This makes this patch functionally useless. However, on PPC, there is actually an explicit definition of atomic_inc_not_zero with its own assembly that is slightly more optimized than atomic_add_unless. So, this patch changes kref to use atomic_inc_not_zero instead, for PPC and any future platforms that might provide an explicit implementation. This also puts this usage of kref more in line with a verbatim reading of the examples in Paul McKenney's paper [1] in the section titled "2.4 Atomic Counting With Check and Release Memory Barrier", which uses atomic_inc_not_zero. [1] http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2167.pdf Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161215050110.3241-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kref.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kref.h b/include/linux/kref.h
index e15828fd71f1..62f0a84ae94e 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -133,6 +133,6 @@ static inline int kref_put_mutex(struct kref *kref,
*/
static inline int __must_check kref_get_unless_zero(struct kref *kref)
{
- return atomic_add_unless(&kref->refcount, 1, 0);
+ return atomic_inc_not_zero(&kref->refcount);
}
#endif /* _KREF_H_ */