The quilt patch titled Subject: fs/ext4: use try_cmpxchg in ext4_update_bh_state has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fs-ext4-use-try_cmpxchg-in-ext4_update_bh_state.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/ext4: use try_cmpxchg in ext4_update_bh_state Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 08:11:47 +0100 Use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old in ext4_update_bh_state. x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction in front of cmpxchg). Also, try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when cmpxchg fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop. No functional change intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221102071147.6642-1-ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c~fs-ext4-use-try_cmpxchg-in-ext4_update_bh_state +++ a/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -786,11 +786,10 @@ static void ext4_update_bh_state(struct * once we get rid of using bh as a container for mapping information * to pass to / from get_block functions, this can go away. */ + old_state = READ_ONCE(bh->b_state); do { - old_state = READ_ONCE(bh->b_state); new_state = (old_state & ~EXT4_MAP_FLAGS) | flags; - } while (unlikely( - cmpxchg(&bh->b_state, old_state, new_state) != old_state)); + } while (unlikely(!try_cmpxchg(&bh->b_state, &old_state, new_state))); } static int _ext4_get_block(struct inode *inode, sector_t iblock, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx are