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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>,
	David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>,
	Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>,
	Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>,
	Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
	edumazet@google.com, paulmck@kernel.org, shakeelb@google.com,
	James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>,
	alex.huangjianhui@huawei.com, dylix.dailei@huawei.com,
	chenzefeng2@huawei.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] locking/refcount: Provide __refcount API to obtain the old value
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:25:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2697076.1611660339@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200921112218.GB2139@willie-the-truck>

Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote:

> > @@ -219,9 +235,14 @@ static inline void refcount_add(int i, r
> >   *
> >   * Return: true if the increment was successful, false otherwise
> >   */
> > +static inline __must_check bool __refcount_inc_not_zero(refcount_t *r, int *oldp)
> > +{
> > +	return __refcount_add_not_zero(1, r, oldp);
> > +}
> 
> Where returning both a bool to indicate whether the old value was zero
> and also the old value itself is a bit OTT.

Actually, with the i386 cmpxchg, that makes sense.  You can use the Z flag to
give you the bool, saving on checking the old value.

David


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-26 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-12 18:34 [PATCH 0/3] Convert nsproxy, groups, and creds to refcount_t Kees Cook
2020-06-12 18:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] nsproxy: convert nsproxy.count " Kees Cook
2020-06-12 18:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] groups: convert group_info.usage " Kees Cook
2020-06-15  0:57   ` [groups] 67467ae141: will-it-scale.per_process_ops 4.3% improvement kernel test robot
2020-06-12 18:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] creds: convert cred.usage to refcount_t Kees Cook
2020-06-15  2:02   ` Xiaoming Ni
2020-06-15  2:10 ` [PATCH 0/3] Convert nsproxy, groups, and creds " Xiaoming Ni
2020-06-15  3:55   ` Kees Cook
2020-06-15  5:35     ` Reshetova, Elena
2020-06-15 18:08       ` Kees Cook
2020-06-18  7:39         ` Reshetova, Elena
2020-07-21 11:02           ` David Howells
2020-07-21 10:51     ` David Howells
2020-07-21 18:44       ` Kees Cook
2020-07-21 19:51         ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-07-28 10:56           ` David Howells
2020-07-29 11:11             ` [RFC][PATCH] locking/refcount: Provide __refcount API to obtain the old value peterz
2020-07-29 11:37               ` peterz
2020-07-29 19:29                 ` Kees Cook
2020-07-29 19:30               ` Kees Cook
2020-07-29 20:41               ` David Howells
2020-07-29 20:52                 ` Kees Cook
2020-08-27  7:54               ` [tip: locking/core] " tip-bot2 for Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-21 11:22               ` [RFC][PATCH] " Will Deacon
2021-01-26 11:25                 ` David Howells [this message]
2020-07-28 11:01         ` [PATCH 0/3] Convert nsproxy, groups, and creds to refcount_t David Howells

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