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@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This was reviewed favorably 14 months ago but never picked up. I'm resubmitting it now in hopes that you can finally queue it up for 4.10. include/linux/kref.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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_ */ -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
