percpu_counter: extend _limited_add() to negative amounts

Though tmpfs does not need it, percpu_counter_limited_add() can be twice
as useful if it works sensibly with negative amounts (subs) - typically
decrements towards a limit of 0 or nearby: as suggested by Dave Chinner.

And in the course of that reworking, skip the percpu counter sum if it is
already obvious that the limit would be passed: as suggested by Tim Chen.

Extend the comment above __percpu_counter_limited_add(), defining the
behaviour with positive and negative amounts, allowing negative limits,
but not bothering about overflow beyond S64_MAX.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <[email protected]>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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