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From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Uros Bizjak" <ubizjak@gmail.com>,
	"Alexey Gladkov" <legion@kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Sebastian Andrzej Siewior" <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	"MengEn Sun" <mengensun@tencent.com>,
	"Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
Subject: [PATCH RESEND v2 2/2] ucount: Use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below()
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:45:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250721174610.28361-2-ubizjak@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250721174610.28361-1-ubizjak@gmail.com>

Use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() instead of
atomic_long_cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old in atomic_long_inc_below().
x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag, so this change saves
a compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction in front of cmpxchg).

Also, atomic_long_try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old"
when cmpxchg fails, enabling further code simplifications.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: MengEn Sun <mengensun@tencent.com>
Cc: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
---
 kernel/ucount.c | 14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/ucount.c b/kernel/ucount.c
index f629db485a07..586af49fc03e 100644
--- a/kernel/ucount.c
+++ b/kernel/ucount.c
@@ -201,16 +201,14 @@ void put_ucounts(struct ucounts *ucounts)
 
 static inline bool atomic_long_inc_below(atomic_long_t *v, long u)
 {
-	long c, old;
-	c = atomic_long_read(v);
-	for (;;) {
+	long c = atomic_long_read(v);
+
+	do {
 		if (unlikely(c >= u))
 			return false;
-		old = atomic_long_cmpxchg(v, c, c+1);
-		if (likely(old == c))
-			return true;
-		c = old;
-	}
+	} while (!atomic_long_try_cmpxchg(v, &c, c+1));
+
+	return true;
 }
 
 struct ucounts *inc_ucount(struct user_namespace *ns, kuid_t uid,
-- 
2.50.1


  reply	other threads:[~2025-07-21 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-21 17:45 [PATCH RESEND v2 1/2] ucount: Fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type Uros Bizjak
2025-07-21 17:45 ` Uros Bizjak [this message]
2025-07-21 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
2025-07-22  6:44   ` Uros Bizjak
2025-07-22  9:48     ` Mark Rutland

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