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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] drm/virtio: use %llu format string form atomic64_t
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:06:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7382069.z44JKC1I1I@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151019093700.GC2092@linux-mips.org>

On Monday 19 October 2015 11:37:00 Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 01:23:07PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > > I haven't checked all architectures, but I assume what happens is that
> > > 64-bit ones just #define atomic64_t atomic_long_t, so they don't have
> > > to provide three sets of functions.
> > 
> > scratch that, I just looked at all the architectures and found that it's
> > just completely arbitrary, even within one architecture you get a mix
> > of 'long' and 'long long', plus this gem from MIPS:
> > 
> > static __inline__ int atomic64_add_unless(atomic64_t *v, long a, long u)
> > 
> > which truncates the result to 32 bit.
> 
> Eh...  The result is 0/1 so nothing is truncated.  Alpha, MIPS,
> PARISC and PowerPC are using the same prototype and x86 only differs
> in the use of inline instead __inline__.  And anyway, that function on
> MIPS is only built for CONFIG_64BIT.

Ah, got it. Sorry about that.

> What's wrong on MIPS is the comment describing the function's return value
> which was changed by f24219b4e90cf70ec4a211b17fbabc725a0ddf3c (atomic: move
> atomic_add_unless to generic code) and I've queued up a patch to fix that
> since a few days.  I guess that was a cut and paste error from
> __atomic_add_unless which indeed does return the old value.

Thanks!

	Arnd

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-19 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-07 10:41 [PATCH] drm/virtio: use %llu format string form atomic64_t Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-07 10:45 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2015-10-07 11:04   ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-07 11:23     ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-19  7:34       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-10-19 10:11         ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-10-19 10:39           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2015-10-19  9:37       ` Ralf Baechle
2015-10-19 10:06         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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