[PATCH v2 1/3] seqlock: add raw_seqcount_try_begin

[Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>]

Add raw_seqcount_try_begin() to opens a read critical section of the given
seqcount_t if the counter is even. This enables eliding the critical
section entirely if the counter is odd, instead of doing the speculation
knowing it will fail.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
---
Applies over Linus' ToT

 include/linux/seqlock.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
index 5298765d6ca4..22c2c48b4265 100644
--- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
@@ -318,6 +318,28 @@ SEQCOUNT_LOCKNAME(mutex,        struct mutex,    true,     mutex)
 	__seq;								\
 })
 
+/**
+ * raw_seqcount_try_begin() - begin a seqcount_t read critical section
+ *                            w/o lockdep and w/o counter stabilization
+ * @s: Pointer to seqcount_t or any of the seqcount_LOCKNAME_t variants
+ *
+ * Similar to raw_seqcount_begin(), except it enables eliding the critical
+ * section entirely if odd, instead of doing the speculation knowing it will
+ * fail.
+ *
+ * Useful when counter stabilization is more or less equivalent to taking
+ * the lock and there is a slowpath that does that.
+ *
+ * If true, start will be set to the (even) sequence count read.
+ *
+ * Return: true when a read critical section is started.
+ */
+#define raw_seqcount_try_begin(s, start)				\
+({									\
+	start = raw_read_seqcount(s);					\
+	!(start & 1);							\
+})
+
 /**
  * raw_seqcount_begin() - begin a seqcount_t read critical section w/o
  *                        lockdep and w/o counter stabilization

base-commit: 43fb83c17ba2d63dfb798f0be7453ed55ca3f9c2
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2.47.0.338.g60cca15819-goog