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From: will.deacon@arm.com (Will Deacon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: include: asm: use 'int' instead of 'unsigned long' for normal register variables within atomic.h
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 16:37:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131004153742.GR24303@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524E8FBC.2080200@asianux.com>

On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:51:56AM +0100, Chen Gang wrote:
> On 10/04/2013 12:32 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > The problem with arm64 is that we're using *unsigned long* for 32-bit
> > clear_mask, which is definitely wrong because it's 64-bit (another patch to
> > fix this!).
> > 
> 
> At least, that is not a bug.

Sure it is. What if the adjacent 32-bit value was being accessed by another
CPU under a spinlock?

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-04 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-21 11:06 [PATCH] ARM: include: asm: atomic.h: use type cast 's64' for the return value of atomic64_add_return() Chen Gang
2013-09-24  9:30 ` Will Deacon
2013-09-24 10:27   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-09-24 10:37     ` Chen Gang
2013-09-24 10:30   ` Chen Gang
2013-09-25  2:25   ` [PATCH v2] ARM: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of 'u64' within atomic.h Chen Gang
2013-09-25 16:07     ` Will Deacon
2013-09-26  2:00       ` Chen Gang
2013-09-26 10:04         ` Will Deacon
2013-09-26 11:03           ` Chen Gang
2013-09-27 11:06             ` Will Deacon
2013-09-27 11:36               ` Chen Gang
2013-09-29  3:43               ` [PATCH 0/2] ARM: include: asm: change functions' and variables' types in atomic.h Chen Gang
2013-09-29  3:43                 ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of 'u64' within atomic.h Chen Gang
2013-09-29  3:52                   ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: include: asm: use 'int' instead of 'unsigned long' for normal register variables " Chen Gang
2013-09-30 16:11                     ` Will Deacon
2013-10-01  2:05                       ` Chen Gang
2013-10-01  9:01                         ` Will Deacon
2013-10-01 12:03                           ` Chen Gang
2013-10-02 10:41                             ` Will Deacon
2013-10-02 15:19                               ` Chen Gang
2013-10-03 10:05                                 ` Chen Gang
2013-10-03 16:32                                   ` Will Deacon
2013-10-04  9:51                                     ` Chen Gang
2013-10-04 15:37                                       ` Will Deacon [this message]
2013-10-04 15:42                                         ` Will Deacon
2013-10-04 23:55                                           ` Chen Gang
2013-10-05  0:11                                             ` Chen Gang
2013-10-08  4:10                                               ` Chen Gang
2013-10-08 10:34                                                 ` Will Deacon
2013-10-08 10:56                                                   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: include: asm: change functions' and variables' types in atomic.h Chen Gang
2013-10-08 10:57                                                     ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of 'u64' within atomic.h Chen Gang
2013-10-08 10:59                                                       ` [PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: include: asm: use 'int' instead of 'unsigned long' for 'oldval' in atomic_cmpxchg() Chen Gang
2013-10-09 10:48                                                         ` Will Deacon
2013-10-10  0:56                                                           ` Chen Gang
2013-10-09 10:46                                                       ` [PATCH v2 1/2] ARM: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of 'u64' within atomic.h Will Deacon
2013-10-08 11:00                                                   ` [PATCH 2/2] ARM: include: asm: use 'int' instead of 'unsigned long' for normal register variables " Chen Gang
2013-10-08 10:33                                             ` Will Deacon
2013-10-08 11:29                                               ` Chen Gang
2013-10-08 17:49                                                 ` Will Deacon
2013-10-09  0:18                                                   ` Chen Gang
2013-10-09  1:22                                                     ` Chen Gang
2013-09-30 16:07                   ` [PATCH 1/2] ARM: include: asm: use 'long long' instead of 'u64' " Will Deacon
2013-10-01  2:09                     ` Chen Gang

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