timers/nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_t

The tick dependency mask was intially unsigned long because this is the
type on which clear_bit() operates on and fetch_or() accepts it.

But now that we have atomic_fetch_or(), we can instead use
atomic_andnot() to clear the bit. This consolidates the type of our
tick dependency mask, reduce its size on structures and benefit from
possible architecture optimizations on atomic_t operations.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458830281-4255-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 60bba7e032dc..52c4847b05e2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ struct signal_struct {
         struct task_cputime cputime_expires;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
-        unsigned long tick_dep_mask;
+        atomic_t tick_dep_mask;
 #endif
 
         struct list_head cpu_timers[3];
@@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
-        unsigned long tick_dep_mask;
+        atomic_t tick_dep_mask;
 #endif
         unsigned long nvcsw, nivcsw; /* context switch counts */
         u64 start_time;         /* monotonic time in nsec */