The current code tries to optimize the setting of KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER
but used atomic_inc_and_test - which always returns true unless pending
had the invalid value of -1 on entry. This patch drops the test part
preserving the original semantic but expressing it less confusingly.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>
---

 arch/x86/kvm/timer.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/timer.c b/arch/x86/kvm/timer.c
index 36054e9..8dd1a55 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/timer.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/timer.c
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ static int __kvm_timer_fn(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct 
kvm_timer *ktimer)
         * case anyway.
         */
        if (ktimer->reinject || !atomic_read(&ktimer->pending)) {
+               atomic_inc(&ktimer->pending);
                /* FIXME: this code should not know anything about vcpus */
-               if (!atomic_inc_and_test(&ktimer->pending))
-                       set_bit(KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER, &vcpu->requests);
+               set_bit(KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER, &vcpu->requests);
        }
 
        if (waitqueue_active(q))
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