From: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
To: Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta1@synopsys.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
peterz@infradead.org, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] bitops.h: set_mask_bits() to return old value
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:25:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <693b30a9-96dc-a5e6-9708-c215b90146b0@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1547166387-19785-4-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com>
On 1/10/19 4:26 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> | > Also, set_mask_bits is used in fs quite a bit and we can possibly come up
> | > with a generic llsc based implementation (w/o the cmpxchg loop)
> |
> | May I also suggest changing the return value of set_mask_bits() to old.
> |
> | You can compute the new value given old, but you cannot compute the old
> | value given new, therefore old is the better return value. Also, no
> | current user seems to use the return value, so changing it is without
> | risk.
>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150807110955.GH16853@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-11 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-11 0:26 [PATCH 0/3] Replace opencoded set_mask_bits Vineet Gupta
2019-01-11 0:26 ` Vineet Gupta
2019-01-11 0:26 ` [PATCH 1/3] coredump: Replace opencoded set_mask_bits() Vineet Gupta
2019-01-11 0:26 ` Vineet Gupta
2019-01-11 4:24 ` Anthony Yznaga
2019-01-11 0:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] fs: inode_set_flags() replace " Vineet Gupta
2019-01-11 0:26 ` Vineet Gupta
2019-01-11 4:24 ` Anthony Yznaga
2019-01-11 0:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] bitops.h: set_mask_bits() to return old value Vineet Gupta
2019-01-11 0:26 ` Vineet Gupta
2019-01-11 4:25 ` Anthony Yznaga [this message]
2019-01-11 9:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-01-11 20:58 ` Vineet Gupta
2019-01-11 20:58 ` Vineet Gupta
2019-01-14 19:00 ` Will Deacon
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