locking/atomic: Introduce atomic_try_cmpxchg()
Add a new cmpxchg interface: bool try_cmpxchg(u{8,16,32,64} *ptr, u{8,16,32,64} *val, u{8,16,32,64} new); Where the boolean returns the result of the compare; and thus if the exchange happened; and in case of failure, the new value of *ptr is returned in *val. This allows simplification/improvement of loops like: for (;;) { new = val $op $imm; old = cmpxchg(ptr, val, new); if (old == val) break; val = old; } into: do { } while (!try_cmpxchg(ptr, &val, val $op $imm)); while also generating better code (GCC6 and onwards). Signed-off-by:Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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