Using xchg() to atomically get and clear the MCE log buffer flags,
streamlines the code and reduces the text size by 20 bytes.
$ size dev-mcelog.o.*
text data bss dec hex filename
3013 360 160 3533 dcd dev-mcelog.o.old
2993 360 160 3513 db9 dev-mcelog.o.new
No functional changes intended.
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c | 11 ++---------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c
index af44fd5dbd7c..8d023239ce18 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/dev-mcelog.c
@@ -264,15 +264,8 @@ static long mce_chrdev_ioctl(struct file *f, unsigned int cmd,
return put_user(sizeof(struct mce), p);
case MCE_GET_LOG_LEN:
return put_user(mcelog->len, p);
- case MCE_GETCLEAR_FLAGS: {
- unsigned flags;
-
- do {
- flags = mcelog->flags;
- } while (cmpxchg(&mcelog->flags, flags, 0) != flags);
-
- return put_user(flags, p);
- }
+ case MCE_GETCLEAR_FLAGS:
+ return put_user(xchg(&mcelog->flags, 0), p);
default:
return -ENOTTY;
}
--
2.17.1