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Commit 56e3d1cd authored by Jason A. Donenfeld's avatar Jason A. Donenfeld Committed by Daniel Vetter
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kref: prefer atomic_inc_not_zero to atomic_add_unless

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: default avatarJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161215050110.3241-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
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