linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 06/24] seqlock: Implement raw_seqcount_begin() in terms of raw_read

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Date:   Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:55:12 +0200
From:   "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@...utronix.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        "Sebastian A. Siewior" <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH v4 06/24] seqlock: Implement raw_seqcount_begin() in terms of raw_read_seqcount()

raw_seqcount_begin() has the same code as raw_read_seqcount(), with the
exception of masking the sequence counter's LSB before returning it to
the caller.

Note, raw_seqcount_begin() masks the counter's LSB before returning it
to the caller so that read_seqcount_retry() can fail if the counter is
odd -- without the overhead of an extra branching instruction.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@...utronix.de>
---
 include/linux/seqlock.h | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/seqlock.h b/include/linux/seqlock.h
index 85fb3ac93ffb..e885702d8b82 100644
--- a/include/linux/seqlock.h
+++ b/include/linux/seqlock.h
@@ -199,10 +199,11 @@ static inline unsigned raw_read_seqcount(const seqcount_t *s)
  */
 static inline unsigned raw_seqcount_begin(const seqcount_t *s)
 {
-	unsigned ret = READ_ONCE(s->sequence);
-	smp_rmb();
-	kcsan_atomic_next(KCSAN_SEQLOCK_REGION_MAX);
-	return ret & ~1;
+	/*
+	 * If the counter is odd, let read_seqcount_retry() fail
+	 * by decrementing the counter.
+	 */
+	return raw_read_seqcount(s) & ~1;
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.20.1