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* [PATCH] kref: prefer atomic_inc_not_zero to atomic_add_unless
@ 2015-10-10 10:56 Jason A. Donenfeld
  2015-10-11 19:59 ` Thomas Hellstrom
  2016-08-10 12:24 ` Fwd: " Thomas Hellstrom
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Jason A. Donenfeld @ 2015-10-10 10:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dave Airlie, Thomas Hellstrom, linux-kernel; +Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld

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@zx2c4.com>
---
 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 484604d..83d1f94 100644
--- a/include/linux/kref.h
+++ b/include/linux/kref.h
@@ -166,6 +166,6 @@ 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_ */
-- 
2.6.0


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* [PATCH] kref: prefer atomic_inc_not_zero to atomic_add_unless
@ 2016-12-15 18:55 Jason A. Donenfeld
  2016-12-15 19:10 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread
From: Jason A. Donenfeld @ 2016-12-15 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christoph Hellwig, Thomas Hellstrom, dri-devel, linux-kernel,
	Daniel Vetter, gregkh
  Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld

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@zx2c4.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
Sorry to submit this again, but people keep reviewing it saying it's fine,
but then point to somebody else to actually merge this. At the end of the
chain of fingerpointing is usually Greg. "Just have Greg do it." At this
point I'm confused, but it's certainly been sufficiently reviewed and
accepted. So can one of you just respond saying "I'll take it!"

 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

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2015-10-11 19:59 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-02-01 21:53   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-06-29 22:52     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-07-01  7:08       ` Patch for drm-next WAS " Thomas Hellstrom
2016-07-01  7:08         ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-07-12 12:28         ` Daniel Vetter
2016-07-12 12:28           ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-15  4:59           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15  5:01           ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16  7:33             ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-15  4:58   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15  8:51     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-08-10 12:24 ` Fwd: " Thomas Hellstrom
2016-12-15 18:55 Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-15 19:10 ` Greg KH
2016-12-15 19:47   ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2016-12-16  7:36   ` Daniel Vetter
2016-12-16  7:36     ` Daniel Vetter

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