linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: slightly shorten __ticket_spin

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Message-ID: <20091203104906.GC7628@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:49:06 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: slightly shorten __ticket_spin_trylock() (v2)


* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com> wrote:

> Since the callers generally expect a boolean value, there's no need to
> zero-extend the outcome of the comparison. It just requires that all
> of x86' trylock implementations have their return type changed
> accordingly.
> 
> Don't use bool for the return type though - this is being frowned on
> and presently doesn't work with the pv-ops patching macros.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h       |    4 ++--
>  arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt_types.h |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h       |   12 +++++-------
>  arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c               |    2 +-
>  4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Looks much cleaner - and should give us pretty much the same savings as 
the previous patch, right? (if not, do you have a size comparison?)

	Ingo
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