From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 2/4] x86: cmpxchg: implement dummy cmpxchg64_relaxed operation
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:13:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380208411-31403-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380208411-31403-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
cmpxchg64_relaxed can be used to provide barrier-less semantics for a
64-bit cmpxchg operation in cases where the strong memory ordering is
not required. A useful use-case for this is in the recently merged
lockless lockref code.
This patch implements a dummy implementation for x86, since the memory
ordering issues aren't a concern for this architecture.
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
index d47786a..aacb99a0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ extern void __add_wrong_size(void)
#define cmpxchg_local(ptr, old, new) \
__cmpxchg_local(ptr, old, new, sizeof(*(ptr)))
+
+#define cmpxchg64_relaxed(ptr, old, new) \
+ cmpxchg64(ptr, old, new)
#endif
/*
--
1.8.2.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-26 15:13 [RFC PATCH 1/4] asm-generic: cmpxchg: implement dummy cmpxchg64_relaxed operation Will Deacon
2013-09-26 15:13 ` Will Deacon
2013-09-26 15:13 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2013-09-26 15:13 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] ia64: " Will Deacon
2013-09-26 15:13 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] lib: lockref: use relaxed cmpxchg64 variant for lockless updates Will Deacon
2013-09-26 15:13 ` Will Deacon
2013-09-26 15:34 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] asm-generic: cmpxchg: implement dummy cmpxchg64_relaxed operation Linus Torvalds
2013-09-26 15:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-26 15:53 ` Will Deacon
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