Re: [patch v3 1/3] percpu_counter: change return value and addcomments

[Eric Dumazet]

Le jeudi 14 avril 2011 Ã 10:04 +0800, shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx a Ãcrit :
> piÃce jointe document texte brut (percpu-counter-positive.patch)
> the percpu_counter_*_positive() API in UP case doesn't check if return value is
> positive. Add comments to explain why we don't.
> Also if count < 0, returns 0 instead of 1 for *read_positive().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/percpu_counter.h |    6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux/include/linux/percpu_counter.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/percpu_counter.h	2011-04-13 16:09:22.000000000 +0800
> +++ linux/include/linux/percpu_counter.h	2011-04-14 08:50:45.000000000 +0800
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static inline s64 percpu_counter_read_po
>  	barrier();		/* Prevent reloads of fbc->count */
>  	if (ret >= 0)
>  		return ret;
> -	return 1;
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static inline int percpu_counter_initialized(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
> @@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ static inline s64 percpu_counter_read(st
>  	return fbc->count;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * percpu_counter is intended to track positive number. In UP case, the number
> + * should never be negative.
> + */
>  static inline s64 percpu_counter_read_positive(struct percpu_counter *fbc)
>  {
>  	return fbc->count;
> 


Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>


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