On 11/14/23 at 05:12pm, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> Use atomic_try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old in
> crash_kexec(). x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag,
> so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg.
>
> No functional change intended.
And code is simplified a little bit, so looks good to me,
Acked-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
>
> Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <[email protected]>
> ---
> kernel/kexec_core.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kexec_core.c b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> index be5642a4ec49..bc4c096ab1f3 100644
> --- a/kernel/kexec_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/kexec_core.c
> @@ -1063,9 +1063,10 @@ __bpf_kfunc void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
> * panic(). Otherwise parallel calls of panic() and crash_kexec()
> * may stop each other. To exclude them, we use panic_cpu here too.
> */
> + old_cpu = PANIC_CPU_INVALID;
> this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
> - old_cpu = atomic_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, PANIC_CPU_INVALID, this_cpu);
> - if (old_cpu == PANIC_CPU_INVALID) {
> +
> + if (atomic_try_cmpxchg(&panic_cpu, &old_cpu, this_cpu)) {
> /* This is the 1st CPU which comes here, so go ahead. */
> __crash_kexec(regs);
>
> --
> 2.41.0
>
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