On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 02:07:08PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: > +static inline int __down_read_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem) > +{ > + long tmp; > + > + while ((tmp = atomic_long_read(&sem->count)) >= 0) { > + if (tmp == atomic_long_cmpxchg_acquire(&sem->count, tmp, > + tmp + RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS)) { > + return 1; > + } > + } Nah, you're supposed to write that like: for (;;) { val = atomic_long_cond_read_relaxed(&sem->count, VAL < 0); if (atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_acquire(&sem->count, &val, val + RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS)) break; } > + return 0; > +} Anyway, yuck, you're keeping all that BIAS nonsense :/ I was so hoping for a rwsem implementation without that impenetrable crap.