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authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>2018-06-21 13:13:06 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-06-21 14:22:33 +0200
commitf74445b6dd6b8f33ed34e005d19ecbb49171dabf (patch)
tree5e12a311221be0cd9bd0e34ae0f910b56cc5a116 /include/linux/atomic.h
parent8b47038e6d349cca950e75076566a0de990c4645 (diff)
atomics/treewide: Remove atomic_inc_not_zero_hint()
While documentation suggests atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() will perform better than atomic_inc_not_zero(), this is unlikely to be the case. No architectures implement atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() directly, and thus it either falls back to atomic_inc_not_zero(), or a loop using atomic_cmpxchg(). Whenever the hint does not match the value in memory, the repeated use of atomic_cmpxchg() will be more expensive than the read that atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() attempts to avoid. For architectures with LL/SC atomics, a read cannot be avoided, and it would always be better to use atomic_inc_not_zero() directly. For other architectures, their own atomic_inc_not_zero() is likely to be more optimal than an atomic_cmpxchg() loop regardless. Generally, atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() is liable to perform worse than atomic_inc_not_zero(). Further, atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() only exists for atomic_t, and not atomic64_t or atomic_long_t, and there is only one user in the kernel tree. Given all this, let's remove atomic_inc_not_zero_hint(), and migrate the existing user over to atomic_inc_not_zero(). There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180621121321.4761-4-mark.rutland@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/atomic.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/atomic.h32
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/atomic.h b/include/linux/atomic.h
index 9cc982936675..5c5620ae5a35 100644
--- a/include/linux/atomic.h
+++ b/include/linux/atomic.h
@@ -571,38 +571,6 @@ static inline int atomic_fetch_andnot_release(int i, atomic_t *v)
}
#endif
-/**
- * atomic_inc_not_zero_hint - increment if not null
- * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
- * @hint: probable value of the atomic before the increment
- *
- * This version of atomic_inc_not_zero() gives a hint of probable
- * value of the atomic. This helps processor to not read the memory
- * before doing the atomic read/modify/write cycle, lowering
- * number of bus transactions on some arches.
- *
- * Returns: 0 if increment was not done, 1 otherwise.
- */
-#ifndef atomic_inc_not_zero_hint
-static inline int atomic_inc_not_zero_hint(atomic_t *v, int hint)
-{
- int val, c = hint;
-
- /* sanity test, should be removed by compiler if hint is a constant */
- if (!hint)
- return atomic_inc_not_zero(v);
-
- do {
- val = atomic_cmpxchg(v, c, c + 1);
- if (val == c)
- return 1;
- c = val;
- } while (c);
-
- return 0;
-}
-#endif
-
#ifndef atomic_inc_unless_negative
static inline int atomic_inc_unless_negative(atomic_t *p)
{