Re: [PATCH -V2 01/13] mutex: add atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Apr 07 2009 - 19:15:59 EST


On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:05:08 -0400
Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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>
> LKML-Reference: <20090323172417.410913479@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> include/linux/mutex.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mutex.h b/include/linux/mutex.h
> index 3069ec7..93054fc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mutex.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mutex.h
> @@ -151,4 +151,27 @@ extern int __must_check mutex_lock_killable(struct mutex *lock);
> 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;
> +}
> +

This looks too large to be inlined?
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