On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 7:23 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 03:44:42PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > But perhaps it makes even more sense to add this functionality to
> > seqcount itself. The same argument can be made for seqcount_mutex and
> > seqcount_rwlock users.
>
> Something like so I suppose.
Ok, let me put this all together. Thanks!
>
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
> index 5298765d6ca4..102afdf8c7db 100644
> --- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
> +++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
> @@ -318,6 +318,28 @@ SEQCOUNT_LOCKNAME(mutex, struct mutex, true, mutex)
> __seq; \
> })
>
> +/**
> + * raw_seqcount_try_begin() - begin a seqcount_t read critical section
> + * w/o lockdep and w/o counter stabilization
> + * @s: Pointer to seqcount_t or any of the seqcount_LOCKNAME_t variants
> + *
> + * Very like raw_seqcount_begin(), except it enables eliding the critical
> + * section entirely if odd, instead of doing the speculation knowing it will
> + * fail.
> + *
> + * Useful when counter stabilization is more or less equivalent to taking
> + * the lock and there is a slowpath that does that.
> + *
> + * If true, start will be set to the (even) sequence count read.
> + *
> + * Return: true when a read critical section is started.
> + */
> +#define raw_seqcount_try_begin(s, start) \
> +({ \
> + start = raw_read_seqcount(s); \
> + !(start & 1); \
> +})
> +
> /**
> * raw_seqcount_begin() - begin a seqcount_t read critical section w/o
> * lockdep and w/o counter stabilization
