Re: [PATCH] atomic: add *_dec_not_zero

From: Sven Eckelmann
Date: Wed May 04 2011 - 04:21:40 EST


On Wednesday 04 May 2011 10:05:53 David Laight wrote:
> > Introduce an *_dec_not_zero operation. Make this a special case of
> > *_add_unless because batman-adv uses atomic_dec_not_zero in different
> > places like re-broadcast queue or aggregation queue management. There
> > are other non-final patches which may also want to use this macro.
>
> Isn't there a place where a default definition of this can be
> defined? Instead of adding it separately to every architecture.

Not that I would know about such a place - and all other atomic* macro
definitions also suggest that there is no such place.

Kind regards,
Sven

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