* barrier. Therefore, an atomic cmpxchg_acquire() is used to acquire the
  * lock just to be sure that it will get it.
  */
-static __always_inline int trylock_clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
+static __always_inline bool trylock_clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
 {
+       u16 old = _Q_PENDING_VAL;
+
        return !READ_ONCE(lock->locked) &&
-              (cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->locked_pending, _Q_PENDING_VAL,
-                               _Q_LOCKED_VAL) == _Q_PENDING_VAL);
+              try_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->locked_pending, &old, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
 }
 #else /* _Q_PENDING_BITS == 8 */
 static __always_inline void set_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
        atomic_or(_Q_PENDING_VAL, &lock->val);
 }
 
-static __always_inline int trylock_clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
+static __always_inline bool trylock_clear_pending(struct qspinlock *lock)
 {
-       int val = atomic_read(&lock->val);
-
-       for (;;) {
-               int old, new;
-
-               if (val  & _Q_LOCKED_MASK)
-                       break;
+       int old, new;
 
+       old = atomic_read(&lock->val);
+       do {
+               if (old & _Q_LOCKED_MASK)
+                       return false;
                /*
                 * Try to clear pending bit & set locked bit
                 */
-               old = val;
-               new = (val & ~_Q_PENDING_MASK) | _Q_LOCKED_VAL;
-               val = atomic_cmpxchg_acquire(&lock->val, old, new);
+               new = (old & ~_Q_PENDING_MASK) | _Q_LOCKED_VAL;
+       } while (!atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire (&lock->val, &old, new));
 
-               if (val == old)
-                       return 1;
-       }
-       return 0;
+       return true;
 }
 #endif /* _Q_PENDING_BITS == 8 */