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drm/i915/active: Use try_cmpxchg64() in __active_lookup()

Replace this pattern in __active_lookup():

cmpxchg64(*ptr, old, new) == old

... with the simpler and faster:

try_cmpxchg64(*ptr, &old, new)

The x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in the ZF flag,
so this change saves a compare after the CMPXCHG.

The patch also improves the explanation of what the code really
does. cmpxchg64() will *succeed* for the winner of the race and
try_cmpxchg64() nicely documents this fact.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@ursulin.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814064326.95519-1-tvrtko.ursulin@igalia.com

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Uros Bizjak and committed by
Tvrtko Ursulin
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drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_active.c
··· 257 257 * claimed the cache and we know that is does not match our 258 258 * idx. If, and only if, the timeline is currently zero is it 259 259 * worth competing to claim it atomically for ourselves (for 260 - * only the winner of that race will cmpxchg return the old 261 - * value of 0). 260 + * only the winner of that race will cmpxchg succeed). 262 261 */ 263 - if (!cached && !cmpxchg64(&it->timeline, 0, idx)) 262 + if (!cached && try_cmpxchg64(&it->timeline, &cached, idx)) 264 263 return it; 265 264 } 266 265