On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 04:05, David Laight wrote:

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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.

Isn't there a place where a default definition of this can be
defined? Instead of adding it separately to every architecture.

that's what asm-generic is for.  if the arch isnt using it, it's
either because the arch needs to convert to it, or they're using SMP
and asm-generic doesnt yet support that for atomic.h.

for example, the Blackfin port only needed updating for the SMP case.
in the non-SMP case, we're getting the def from asm-generic/atomic.h.
-mike