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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/13] atomics: API cleanups
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 02:35:20PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This series contains a few cleanups of the atomic API, fixing an
> inconsistency between atomic_* and atomic64_*, and minimizing repetition
> in arch code. This is nicer for arch code, and the improved regularity
> will help when generating the atomic headers in future.
>
> The bulk of the patches reorganise things so architectures consistently
> provide <atomic>_fetch_add_unless(), with atomic_fetch_add_unless()
> provided as a wrapper by core code. A generic fallback is provided for
> <atomic>_fetch_add_unless(), based on <atomic>_read() and
> <atomic>_try_cmpxchg().
>
> Other patches in the series add common fallbacks for:
>
> * atomic64_inc_not_zero()
> * <atomic>_inc_and_test()
> * <atomic>_dec_and_test()
> * <atomic>_sub_and_test()
> * <atomic>add_negative()
>
> ... as almost all architectures provide identical implementation of
> these today.
>
> The end result is a strongly negative diffstat, though <linux/atomic.h>
> grows by a reasonable amount. When we generate the headers, we can halve
> this by templating the various fallbacks for atomic{,64}_t.
>

Thanks for this Mark,

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

Ingo, can you magic this into tip somewhere?

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