[PATCH 2/2] arm64: bpf: add BPF XADD instruction
Peter Zijlstra
peterz at infradead.org
Wed Nov 11 10:44:27 PST 2015
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 07:31:28PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Add new one that does 'fetch_and_add' ? What is the real use case it
> > will be used for?
>
> Look at all the atomic_{add,dec}_return*() users in the kernel. A typical
> example would be a reader-writer lock implementations. See
> include/asm-generic/rwsem.h for examples.
Maybe a better example would be refcounting, where you free on 0.
if (!fetch_add(&obj->ref, -1))
free(obj);
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