linux-kernel - Re: [tip:perfcounters/urgent] x86: atomic64: Move the 32-bit atomic64

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Date:	Fri, 3 Jul 2009 09:47:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, paulus@...ba.org, acme@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, efault@....de, arnd@...db.de,
	fweisbec@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [tip:perfcounters/urgent] x86: atomic64: Move the 32-bit atomic64_t
 implementation to a .c file



On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, tip-bot for Ingo Molnar wrote:
> +int atomic64_add_negative(u64 delta, atomic64_t *ptr)
> +{
> +	long long old_val = atomic64_add_return(delta, ptr);
> +
> +	return old_val < 0;
> +}

Can we please fix this horribly mis-named 'old_val' variable?

It's not 'old_val'. It should be 'new_val' or 'result'.

As it is, the above looks very wrong, and made me think that you had done 
the wrong semantics (ie "xadd" like semantics that literally return the 
pre-add 'old' value).

But on closer inspection, it looks like the code is correct, but the 
naming is just totally wrong.

		Linus
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