[RFC][PATCH 2/3] mutex: add atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock]

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Mar 20 2009 - 11:19:41 EST


From: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>

Much like the atomic_dec_and_lock() function in which we take an hold a
spin_lock if we drop the atomic to 0 this function takes and holds the
mutex if we dec the atomic to 0.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mutex.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mutex.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mutex.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mutex.h
@@ -151,4 +151,27 @@ extern int __must_check mutex_lock_killa
extern int mutex_trylock(struct mutex *lock);
extern void mutex_unlock(struct mutex *lock);

+/**
+ * atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock - return holding mutex if we dec to 0
+ * @cnt: the atomic which we are to dec
+ * @lock: the mutex to return holding if we dec to 0
+ *
+ * return true and hold lock if we dec to 0, return false otherwise
+ */
+static inline int atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(atomic_t *cnt, struct mutex *lock)
+{
+ /* dec if we can't possibly hit 0 */
+ if (atomic_add_unless(cnt, -1, 1))
+ return 0;
+ /* we might hit 0, so take the lock */
+ mutex_lock(lock);
+ if (!atomic_dec_and_test(cnt)) {
+ /* when we actually did the dec, we didn't hit 0 */
+ mutex_unlock(lock);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ /* we hit 0, and we hold the lock */
+ return 1;
+}
+
#endif

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