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Commit e79bee24 authored by Shaohua Li's avatar Shaohua Li Committed by Linus Torvalds
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atomic: implement generic atomic_dec_if_positive()



The x86 implementation of atomic_dec_if_positive is quite generic, so make
it available to all architectures.

This is needed for "swap: add a simple detector for inappropriate swapin
readahead".

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: do the "#define foo foo" trick in the conventional manner]
Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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