linux-kernel - [PATCH 01/13] mutex: add atomic_dec_and_mutex

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Message-ID: <20090319180456.17449.76663.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:04:56 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
	john@...nmccutchan.com, rlove@...ve.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH 01/13] mutex: add atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock

Much like the atomic_dec_and_lock() function in which we take an hold a
spin_lock if we drop the atomic to 0 this function takes and holds the
mutex if we dec the atomic to 0.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
---

 include/linux/mutex.h |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mutex.h b/include/linux/mutex.h
index 3069ec7..93054fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/mutex.h
+++ b/include/linux/mutex.h
@@ -151,4 +151,27 @@ extern int __must_check mutex_lock_killable(struct mutex *lock);
 extern int mutex_trylock(struct mutex *lock);
 extern void mutex_unlock(struct mutex *lock);
 
+/**
+ * atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock - return holding mutex if we dec to 0
+ * @cnt: the atomic which we are to dec
+ * @lock: the mutex to return holding if we dec to 0
+ *
+ * return true and hold lock if we dec to 0, return false otherwise
+ */
+static inline int atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(atomic_t *cnt, struct mutex *lock)
+{
+	/* dec if we can't possibly hit 0 */
+	if (atomic_add_unless(cnt, -1, 1))
+		return 0;
+	/* we might hit 0, so take the lock */
+	mutex_lock(lock);
+	if (!atomic_dec_and_test(cnt)) {
+		/* when we actually did the dec, we didn't hit 0 */
+		mutex_unlock(lock);
+		return 0;
+	}
+	/* we hit 0, and we hold the lock */
+	return 1;
+}
+
 #endif

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