From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: fix local_add_unless macro
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:05:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090122180526.GA8354@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49787DB4.8080308@gmail.com>
* Roel Kluin (roel.kluin@gmail.com) wrote:
> When this macro isn't called with 'a' this will
> result in a build failure.
>
Can I have a look at the offending calling code and the build failure
output ? We might consider changing these for static inlines instead.
And clearly, just changing a single primitive is not going to work. We
need to address the other similar in the same file at the very least.
Mathieu
> Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/local.h b/include/asm-generic/local.h
> index dbd6150..fc21844 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/local.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/local.h
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ typedef struct
>
> #define local_cmpxchg(l, o, n) atomic_long_cmpxchg((&(l)->a), (o), (n))
> #define local_xchg(l, n) atomic_long_xchg((&(l)->a), (n))
> -#define local_add_unless(l, a, u) atomic_long_add_unless((&(l)->a), (a), (u))
> +#define local_add_unless(l, _a, u) atomic_long_add_unless((&(l)->a), (_a), (u))
> #define local_inc_not_zero(l) atomic_long_inc_not_zero(&(l)->a)
>
> /* Non-atomic variants, ie. preemption disabled and won't be touched
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-22 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-22 14:07 [PATCH] asm-generic: fix local_add_unless macro Roel Kluin
2009-01-22 18:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2009-01-23 15:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-05-12 21:31 ` Roel Kluin
2009-05-12 21:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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