linux-kernel - [PATCH 17/47] KVM: Drop useless atomic test from timer function

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Date:	Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:02:13 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 17/47] KVM: Drop useless atomic test from timer function

From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>

The current code tries to optimize the setting of
KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER but used atomic_inc_and_test - which always
returns true unless pending had the invalid value of -1 on entry. This
patch drops the test part preserving the original semantic but
expressing it less confusingly.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/timer.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/timer.c b/arch/x86/kvm/timer.c
index 1baed41..eea4043 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/timer.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/timer.c
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ static int __kvm_timer_fn(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_timer *ktimer)
 	 * case anyway.
 	 */
 	if (ktimer->reinject || !atomic_read(&ktimer->pending)) {
+		atomic_inc(&ktimer->pending);
 		/* FIXME: this code should not know anything about vcpus */
-		if (!atomic_inc_and_test(&ktimer->pending))
-			set_bit(KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER, &vcpu->requests);
+		set_bit(KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER, &vcpu->requests);
 	}
 
 	if (waitqueue_active(q))
-- 
1.6.3.3

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