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| author | Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de> | 2010-05-24 23:33:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-05-25 17:07:03 +0200 |
| commit | 37682177af68478fa83429b735fa16913c2fbb2b (patch) | |
| tree | 989ad96f1e5ca0b47e1a44111e1eb110a33a79eb /include/asm-generic/atomic.h | |
| parent | kernel.h: add pr_warn for symmetry to dev_warn, netdev_warn (diff) | |
| download | linux-37682177af68478fa83429b735fa16913c2fbb2b.tar.xz linux-37682177af68478fa83429b735fa16913c2fbb2b.zip | |
asm-generic: don't warn that atomic_t is only 24 bit
32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of 24-bit of it's atomic_t type.
This was corrected with linux 2.6.3 when Keith M Wesolowski changed the
implementation to use the parisc approach of having an array of spinlocks
to protect the atomic_t.
These warnings were also removed from the sparc implementation when the
new implementation was merged in BKrev:402e4949VThdc6D3iaosSFUgabMfvw, but
the warning still remained in some other places without any 24-bit-only
atomic_t implementation inside the kernel.
We should remove these warnings to allow users to rely on the full 32-bit
range of atomic_t.
Signed-off-by: Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic/atomic.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/atomic.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/atomic.h b/include/asm-generic/atomic.h index c33749f95b32..058129e9b04c 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/atomic.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/atomic.h @@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ * atomic_read - read atomic variable * @v: pointer of type atomic_t * - * Atomically reads the value of @v. Note that the guaranteed - * useful range of an atomic_t is only 24 bits. + * Atomically reads the value of @v. */ #define atomic_read(v) (*(volatile int *)&(v)->counter) @@ -40,8 +39,7 @@ * @v: pointer of type atomic_t * @i: required value * - * Atomically sets the value of @v to @i. Note that the guaranteed - * useful range of an atomic_t is only 24 bits. + * Atomically sets the value of @v to @i. */ #define atomic_set(v, i) (((v)->counter) = (i)) @@ -53,7 +51,6 @@ * @v: pointer of type atomic_t * * Atomically adds @i to @v and returns the result - * Note that the guaranteed useful range of an atomic_t is only 24 bits. */ static inline int atomic_add_return(int i, atomic_t *v) { @@ -75,7 +72,6 @@ static inline int atomic_add_return(int i, atomic_t *v) * @v: pointer of type atomic_t * * Atomically subtracts @i from @v and returns the result - * Note that the guaranteed useful range of an atomic_t is only 24 bits. */ static inline int atomic_sub_return(int i, atomic_t *v) { |