x86/pvclock: Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read()
Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read: - Atomic update can be skipped if the "last_value" is already equal to "ret". - The detection of atomic update failure is not correct. The value, returned by atomic64_cmpxchg should be compared to the old value from the location to be updated. If these two are the same, then atomic update succeeded and "last_value" location is updated to "ret" in an atomic way. Otherwise, the atomic update failed and it should be retried with the value from "last_value" - exactly what atomic64_try_cmpxchg does in a correct and more optimal way. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230118202330.3740-1-ubizjak@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230126151323.643408110@infradead.org
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