Re: [PATCH] m68k: add generic atomic64_t support

Greg Ungerer
2012-08-13T06:13:47Z

Hi Geert,

On 13/08/12 00:47, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Fengguang,
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
>> This fixes build errors like:
>>
>> fs/namespace.c:2290:1: error: unknown type name 'atomic64_t'
>> fs/namespace.c:2290:1: error: implicit declaration of function 'ATOMIC64_INIT' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>> fs/namespace.c:2290:1: error: initializer element is not constant
>> fs/namespace.c: In function 'alloc_mnt_ns':
>> fs/namespace.c:2299:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'atomic64_add_return' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>
>> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
>> ---
>> arch/m68k/Kconfig | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> --- linux.orig/arch/m68k/Kconfig 2012-08-12 21:15:49.730533572 +0800
>> +++ linux/arch/m68k/Kconfig 2012-08-12 22:19:56.202624988 +0800
>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ config M68K
>> select FPU if MMU
>> select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
>> select ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET if MMU && !COLDFIRE
>> + select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
>
> For several CPU types (68020/68030/68040/68080), this is already selected in
> arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu
> So probably this select should be moved to cover more CPU types?

I think we need CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMC64 for all the other types too.
Is there any reason we can't remove all these CPU defined ones and
have a single select for m68k?

Tested and verified on a variety of ColdFire targets if I do that.

Regards
Greg

> For which config do you get this build error? I can't seem to trigger it in
> current mainline nor -next with m5475evb_defconfig.
> Does it depend on additional patches to introduce more atomic64 uses?
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
>
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
> -- Linus Torvalds
>
>
>

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