On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 16:22 -0700, Jason Low wrote: > Should we do something similar with __down_read_trylock, such as > the following? > > > Signed-off-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@xxxxxx> > --- > include/asm-generic/rwsem.h | 3 +++ > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h b/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h > index bb1e2cd..47990dc 100644 > --- a/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h > +++ b/include/asm-generic/rwsem.h > @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ static inline int __down_read_trylock(struct > rw_semaphore *sem) > long tmp; > > while ((tmp = sem->count) >= 0) { > + if (sem->count != tmp) > + continue; > + Considering that tmp has just been assigned the value of sem->count, the added if check failure is unlikely and probably not needed. We should proceed to cmpxchg below. > if (tmp == cmpxchg(&sem->count, tmp, > tmp + RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS)) { > return 1; Tim -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>