There's no need for a loop here: if the value to be compared against and the value to be stored are equal, cmpxchg{,8b} act just like a load anyway. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- a/xen/include/asm-x86/x86_32/page.h +++ b/xen/include/asm-x86/x86_32/page.h @@ -84,11 +84,7 @@ extern unsigned int PAGE_HYPERVISOR_NOCA #endif -#define pte_read_atomic(ptep) ({ \ - intpte_t __pte = *(ptep), __npte; \ - while ( (__npte = cmpxchg(ptep, __pte, __pte)) != __pte ) \ - __pte = __npte; \ - __pte; }) +#define pte_read_atomic(ptep) cmpxchg(ptep, 0, 0) #define pte_write_atomic(ptep, pte) do { \ intpte_t __pte = *(ptep), __npte; \ while ( (__npte = cmpxchg(ptep, __pte, (pte))) != __pte ) \