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[v5,2/7] linux/include: add non-atomic version of xchg

Message ID 20230118154450.73842-2-andrzej.hajda@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Introduce __xchg, non-atomic xchg | expand

Commit Message

Andrzej Hajda Jan. 18, 2023, 3:44 p.m. UTC 
The pattern of setting variable with new value and returning old
one is very common in kernel. Usually atomicity of the operation
is not required, so xchg seems to be suboptimal and confusing in
such cases.

Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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 include/linux/non-atomic/xchg.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 include/linux/non-atomic/xchg.h

Comments

Andi Shyti Feb. 27, 2023, 9:53 a.m. UTC | #1 
Hi Andrzej,

On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 04:44:45PM +0100, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> The pattern of setting variable with new value and returning old
> one is very common in kernel. Usually atomicity of the operation
> is not required, so xchg seems to be suboptimal and confusing in
> such cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>

Thanks,
Andi
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diff --git a/include/linux/non-atomic/xchg.h b/include/linux/non-atomic/xchg.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..f7fa5dd746f37d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/non-atomic/xchg.h
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ 
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef _LINUX_NON_ATOMIC_XCHG_H
+#define _LINUX_NON_ATOMIC_XCHG_H
+
+/**
+ * __xchg - set variable pointed by @ptr to @val, return old value
+ * @ptr: pointer to affected variable
+ * @val: value to be written
+ *
+ * This is non-atomic variant of xchg.
+ */
+#define __xchg(ptr, val) ({		\
+	__auto_type __ptr = ptr;	\
+	__auto_type __t = *__ptr;	\
+	*__ptr = (val);			\
+	__t;				\
+})
+
+#endif