- To: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] atomic: add *_dec_not_zero
- From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 12:53:19 +0100
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Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> [MN10300 and FRV]
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