The current version of __raw_read_trylock starts with decrementing the lock
and read its new value as a separate operation after that.
That makes 3 dereferences (read, write (after sub), read) whereas
a single atomic_dec_return does only two pointers dereferences (read, write).
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
{
atomic_t *count = (atomic_t *)lock;
- atomic_dec(count);
- if (atomic_read(count) >= 0)
+ if (atomic_dec_return(count) >= 0)
return 1;
atomic_inc(count);
return 0;