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| author | Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> | 2011-05-25 02:13:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 17:39:44 +0200 |
| commit | dbee8a0affd5e6eaa5d7c816c4bc233f6f110f50 (patch) | |
| tree | 485bba5ec4436e9e8c84aacf25590ca8f8a6332b /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | Remove unused PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY constant (diff) | |
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x86: remove 32-bit versions of readq()/writeq()
The presense of a writeq() implementation on 32-bit x86 that splits the
64-bit write into two 32-bit writes turns out to break the mpt2sas driver
(and in general is risky for drivers as was discussed in
<http://lkml.kernel.org/r/adaab6c1h7c.fsf@cisco.com>). To fix this,
revert 2c5643b1c5c7 ("x86: provide readq()/writeq() on 32-bit too") and
follow-on cleanups.
This unfortunately leads to pushing non-atomic definitions of readq() and
write() to various x86-only drivers that in the meantime started using the
definitions in the x86 version of <asm/io.h>. However as discussed
exhaustively, this is actually the right thing to do, because the right
way to split a 64-bit transaction is hardware dependent and therefore
belongs in the hardware driver (eg mpt2sas needs a spinlock to make sure
no other accesses occur in between the two halves of the access).
Build tested on 32- and 64-bit x86 allmodconfig.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/x86-32-writeq-is-broken@mdm.bga.com
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Cc: Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Anand <ravi.anand@qlogic.com>
Cc: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 880fcb6c86f4..fa2cc8c5d01c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ config X86_64 config X86 def_bool y select HAVE_AOUT if X86_32 - select HAVE_READQ - select HAVE_WRITEQ select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK select HAVE_IDE select HAVE_OPROFILE |