@@ -656,38 +656,6 @@ static inline int atomic_fetch_andnot_release(int i, atomic_t *v)
}
#endif
-/**
- * atomic_inc_not_zero_hint - increment if not null
- * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
- * @hint: probable value of the atomic before the increment
- *
- * This version of atomic_inc_not_zero() gives a hint of probable
- * value of the atomic. This helps processor to not read the memory
- * before doing the atomic read/modify/write cycle, lowering
- * number of bus transactions on some arches.
- *
- * Returns: 0 if increment was not done, 1 otherwise.
- */
-#ifndef atomic_inc_not_zero_hint
-static inline int atomic_inc_not_zero_hint(atomic_t *v, int hint)
-{
- int val, c = hint;
-
- /* sanity test, should be removed by compiler if hint is a constant */
- if (!hint)
- return atomic_inc_not_zero(v);
-
- do {
- val = atomic_cmpxchg(v, c, c + 1);
- if (val == c)
- return 1;
- c = val;
- } while (c);
-
- return 0;
-}
-#endif
-
#ifndef atomic_inc_unless_negative
static inline int atomic_inc_unless_negative(atomic_t *p)
{
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ static int pppoatm_may_send(struct pppoatm_vcc *pvcc, int size)
* the packet count limit, so...
*/
if (atm_may_send(pvcc->atmvcc, size) &&
- atomic_inc_not_zero_hint(&pvcc->inflight, NONE_INFLIGHT))
+ atomic_inc_not_zero(&pvcc->inflight))
return 1;
/*
While documentation suggests atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() will perform better than atomic_inc_not_zero(), this is unlikely to be the case. No architectures implement atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() directly, and thus it either falls back to atomic_inc_not_zero(), or a loop using atomic_cmpxchg(). Whenever the hint does not match the value in memory, the repeated use of atomic_cmpxchg() will be more expensive than the read that atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() attempts to avoid. For architectures with LL/SC atomics, a read cannot be avoided, and it would always be better to use atomic_inc_not_zero() directly. For other architectures, their own atomic_inc_not_zero() is likely to be more optimal than an atomic_cmpxchg() loop regardless. Generally, atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() is liable to perform worse than atomic_inc_not_zero(). Further, atomic_inc_not_zero_hint() only exists for atomic_t, and not atomic64_t or atomic_long_t, and there is only one user in the kernel tree. Given all this, let's remove atomic_inc_not_zero_hint(), and migrate the existing user over to atomic_inc_not_zero(). There should be no functional change as a result of this patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> --- include/linux/atomic.h | 32 -------------------------------- net/atm/pppoatm.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 33 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0