From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 7/9] arm64: Add atomic macros to assembler.h
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:25:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140827082529.GD6968@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409082053.11425.43.camel@smoke>
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:40:53PM +0100, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 17:05 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 08:49:16PM +0100, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > > Add an assembler macro definition 'atomic' for performing generic
> > > atomic operations. Also add macro definitions for atomic_add,
> > > atomic_sub, atomic_inc, and atomic_dec.
> >
> > Same question as before. Why are this needed?
>
> I use these in the smp-spin-table re-work I am doing to keep a
> count of CPUs in the secondary_holding_pen, but those patches
> are not yet ready for review.
>
> I thought I'd post this now thinking theses macros might be of use
> to someone else. I could just put them into the smp-spin-table
> series, please let me know.
Keeping them all together would be better. I don't like introducing
unused code.
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-27 8:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-22 19:49 [PATCH 0/9] arm64: minor fixups and enhancements Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 1/9] arm64: Fix efi kernel entry Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 15:55 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 16:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-08-26 18:42 ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 3/9] arm64: Remove unneeded extern keyword Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:11 ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 4/9] arm64: Remove unused variable in head.S Geoff Levand
2014-08-27 8:40 ` Will Deacon
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 7/9] arm64: Add atomic macros to assembler.h Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:05 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 19:40 ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-27 8:25 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 2/9] arm64: Fix INVALID_HWID definition Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 15:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 18:18 ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-27 8:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 16:31 ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-26 17:38 ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 6/9] arm64: Add new routine local_disable Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 16:23 ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 5/9] arm64: Fix include header order in vmlinux.lds.S Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:27 ` Mark Rutland
2014-08-26 19:27 ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-27 8:24 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-29 21:53 ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 9/9] arm64: Add new cpu-return-addr device tree binding Geoff Levand
2014-08-27 8:30 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-29 21:45 ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-22 19:49 ` [PATCH 8/9] arm64: Add missing AT() macros to vmlinux.lds.S Geoff Levand
2014-08-26 16:08 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-08-26 19:33 ` Geoff Levand
2014-08-27 6:53 ` AKASHI Takahiro
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