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Message-ID: <20170424104539.qa2jva2jytwboeam@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:45:39 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, "axboe@...nel.dk" <axboe@...nel.dk>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>, Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>, Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@...il.com>, David Windsor <dwindsor@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>, davem@...emloft.net, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/refcount: Implement fast refcount_t handling On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 03:09:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > +static __always_inline __must_check bool refcount_inc_not_zero(refcount_t *r) > +{ > + const int a = 1; > + const int u = 0; > + int c, old; > + > + c = atomic_read(&(r->refs)); > + for (;;) { > + if (unlikely(c == (u))) > + break; > + old = atomic_cmpxchg(&(r->refs), c, c + (a)); Please use atomic_try_cmpxchg(), that generates saner code. > + if (likely(old == c)) > + break; > + c = old; > + } > + return c != u; > +}
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