linux-kernel - [PATCH] sysfs: use atomic_inc_unless_negative in sysfs_get

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Date:	Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:07:27 +0100
From:	Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@...il.com>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sysfs: use atomic_inc_unless_negative in sysfs_get_active

It seems that sysfs has an interesting way of doing the same thing.
This removes the cpu_relax unfortunately, but if it's really needed,
it would be better to add this to include/linux/atomic.h to benefit
all atomic ops users.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...onical.com>
 ---

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 2fbdff6..7f968ed 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -165,21 +165,8 @@ struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_active(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
 	if (unlikely(!sd))
 		return NULL;
 
-	while (1) {
-		int v, t;
-
-		v = atomic_read(&sd->s_active);
-		if (unlikely(v < 0))
-			return NULL;
-
-		t = atomic_cmpxchg(&sd->s_active, v, v + 1);
-		if (likely(t == v))
-			break;
-		if (t < 0)
-			return NULL;
-
-		cpu_relax();
-	}
+	if (!atomic_inc_unless_negative(&sd->s_active))
+		return NULL;
 
 	if (likely(!ignore_lockdep(sd)))
 		rwsem_acquire_read(&sd->dep_map, 0, 1, _RET_IP_);

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