From 5ede972df1cd9294c82e9515949fd2103be81d7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Lespinasse Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 06:45:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] rwsem: use cmpxchg for trying to steal write lock Using rwsem_atomic_update to try stealing the write lock forced us to undo the adjustment in the failure path. We can have simpler and faster code by using cmpxchg instead. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso Acked-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed