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Use `atomic_try_cmpxchg(ptr, &old, new)` instead of `atomic_cmpxchg(ptr, old, new) == old` in free_extent_buffer. This has two benefits: - The x86 cmpxchg instruction returns success in the ZF flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg, as well as a related move instruction in the front of cmpxchg. - atomic_try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns the *ptr value to &old when cmpxchg fails, enabling further code simplifications. This patch has no functional change. Reviewed-by: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io> Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.