atomic: implement generic atomic_dec_if_positive()

The x86 implementation of atomic_dec_if_positive is quite generic, so make
it available to all architectures.

This is needed for "swap: add a simple detector for inappropriate swapin
readahead".

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: do the "#define foo foo" trick in the conventional manner]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h
index 250b877..b6c3b82 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h
@@ -240,30 +240,6 @@ static inline int __atomic_add_unless(atomic_t *v, int a, int u)
 	return c;
 }
 
-
-/*
- * atomic_dec_if_positive - decrement by 1 if old value positive
- * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
- *
- * The function returns the old value of *v minus 1, even if
- * the atomic variable, v, was not decremented.
- */
-static inline int atomic_dec_if_positive(atomic_t *v)
-{
-	int c, old, dec;
-	c = atomic_read(v);
-	for (;;) {
-		dec = c - 1;
-		if (unlikely(dec < 0))
-			break;
-		old = atomic_cmpxchg((v), c, dec);
-		if (likely(old == c))
-			break;
-		c = old;
-	}
-	return dec;
-}
-
 /**
  * atomic_inc_short - increment of a short integer
  * @v: pointer to type int