From: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 20:30:22 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: staging: comedi: comedi_buf: cleanup comedi_buf_read_n_available()
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=43f9137df461f6365f76b46f404fd6775eab7d51;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

staging: comedi: comedi_buf: cleanup comedi_buf_read_n_available()

For aesthetic reasons, cleanup this function a bit.

Change the (async == NULL) test to simply (!async).

Reword the comment about the need for the smp_rmb()..

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c
index fd2a92e29fb0..06dd544ec2c5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_buf.c
@@ -273,14 +273,17 @@ unsigned int comedi_buf_read_n_available(struct comedi_async *async)
 {
 	unsigned num_bytes;
 
-	if (async == NULL)
+	if (!async)
 		return 0;
+
 	num_bytes = async->munge_count - async->buf_read_count;
-	/* barrier insures the read of munge_count in this
-	   query occurs before any following reads of the buffer which
-	   might be based on the return value from this query.
+
+	/*
+	 * ensure the async buffer 'counts' are read before we
+	 * attempt to read data from the buffer
 	 */
 	smp_rmb();
+
 	return num_bytes;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(comedi_buf_read_n_available);