Re: [PATCH 2/5] atomic: introduce atomic_inc_not_zero

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Or here is possible pseudo code for an architecture with ll/sc
> instructions:
> 
>   do {
>     tmp = load_locked(v);
>     if (!tmp)
>       break;
>     tmp++;
>   } while (!store_cond(v, tmp));
> 
>   return tmp;
> 
> As opposed to using the cmpxchg version, which would have more
> loads and conditional branches, AFAIKS.

I'd prefer to generalize this construct, than polluting atomic.h with all 
kinds of esoteric atomic operations.
So you would get:

	do {
		old = atomic_load_locked(v);
		if (!old)
			break;
		new = old + 1;
	} while (!atomic_store_lock(v, old, new));

bye, Roman
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