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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-09-19 20:06:46 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-20 18:04:28 +0200
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lockref: use cmpxchg64 explicitly for lockless updates
The cmpxchg() function tends not to support 64-bit arguments on 32-bit architectures. This could be either due to use of unsigned long arguments (like on ARM) or lack of instruction support (cmpxchgq on x86). However, these architectures may implement a specific cmpxchg64() function to provide 64-bit cmpxchg support instead. Since the lockref code requires a 64-bit cmpxchg and relies on the architecture selecting ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF, move to using cmpxchg64 instead of cmpxchg and allow 32-bit architectures to make use of the lockless lockref implementation. Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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