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authorNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>2005-11-13 16:07:25 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-13 18:14:16 -0800
commit8426e1f6af0fd7f44d040af7263750c5a52f3cc3 (patch)
tree827bd2588c2b73d11cea6869de8ff42dba134375 /Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
parent4a6dae6d382e9edf3ff440b819e554ed706359bc (diff)
[PATCH] atomic: inc_not_zero
Introduce an atomic_inc_not_zero operation. Make this a special case of atomic_add_unless because lockless pagecache actually wants atomic_inc_not_negativeone due to its offset refcount. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
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@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ boolean is return which indicates whether the resulting counter value
is negative. It requires explicit memory barrier semantics around the
operation.
-Finally:
+Then:
int atomic_cmpxchg(atomic_t *v, int old, int new);
@@ -129,6 +129,18 @@ atomic_cmpxchg requires explicit memory barriers around the operation.
The semantics for atomic_cmpxchg are the same as those defined for 'cas'
below.
+Finally:
+
+ int atomic_add_unless(atomic_t *v, int a, int u);
+
+If the atomic value v is not equal to u, this function adds a to v, and
+returns non zero. If v is equal to u then it returns zero. This is done as
+an atomic operation.
+
+atomic_add_unless requires explicit memory barriers around the operation.
+
+atomic_inc_not_zero, equivalent to atomic_add_unless(v, 1, 0)
+
If a caller requires memory barrier semantics around an atomic_t
operation which does not return a value, a set of interfaces are