Re: [PATCH 7/10] local_t : powerpc

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

* Paul Mackerras (paulus@samba.org) wrote:
> Mathieu Desnoyers writes:
> 
> > +static __inline__ int local_dec_if_positive(local_t *l)
> > +{
> > +	int t;
> > +
> > +	__asm__ __volatile__(
> > +"1:	lwarx	%0,0,%1		# local_dec_if_positive\n\
> > +	addic.	%0,%0,-1\n\
> > +	blt-	2f\n"
> > +	PPC405_ERR77(0,%1)
> > +"	stwcx.	%0,0,%1\n\
> > +	bne-	1b"
> 
> This has the same bugs that we fixed recently in atomic_dec_if_positive;
> first, on 64-bit machines, the lwarx will zero-extend the word loaded
> from memory, and so the result of the addic will be negative only if
> the word was originally 0.  Secondly, even on 32-bit machines,
> 0x80000000 will be considered positive since decrementing it gives
> 0x7fffffff, which is positive.
> 
Hi Paul,

Thanks, will fix.

Mathieu

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