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From: peterz@infradead.org (Peter Zijlstra)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] sched, time: fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:08:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140930190859.GO4241@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140930190611.GA5702@lerouge>

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:06:13PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> Maybe cmpxchg() should itself be a wrapper that does this build time choice
> between cmpxchg32() and cmpxchg64().
> 
> And if it looks too dangerous to convert all users, this could be cmpxchg_t().

It cannot, not all 32bit archs can do a 64bit cmpxchg.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-30 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30 11:56 [PATCH] sched, time: cmpxchg does not work on 64-bit variable Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-30 12:34 ` Rik van Riel
2014-09-30 12:43   ` Dietmar Eggemann
2014-09-30 13:26   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-30 13:37   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-30 19:59     ` [PATCH v2] sched, time: fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems Rik van Riel
2014-09-30 20:07       ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-30 17:40 ` [PATCH] " Rik van Riel
2014-09-30 18:49   ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-30 19:19     ` Rik van Riel
2014-09-30 19:06   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2014-09-30 19:08     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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