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Nick Piggin
2005-09-02T06:29:05Z

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Implement atomic_cmpxchg for i386 and ppc64. Is there any
architecture that won't be able to implement such an operation?

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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Introduce an atomic_cmpxchg operation. Implement this for i386 and ppc64.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-i386/atomic.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-i386/atomic.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-i386/atomic.h
@@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ static __inline__ int atomic_sub_return(
return atomic_add_return(-i,v);
}

+#define atomic_cmpxchg(v, old, new) ((int)cmpxchg(&((v)->counter), old, new))
+
#define atomic_inc_return(v) (atomic_add_return(1,v))
#define atomic_dec_return(v) (atomic_sub_return(1,v))

Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-ppc64/atomic.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-ppc64/atomic.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/asm-ppc64/atomic.h
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ static __inline__ int atomic_dec_return(
return t;
}

+#define atomic_cmpxchg(v, o, n) ((int)cmpxchg(&((v)->counter), (o), (n)))
+
#define atomic_sub_and_test(a, v) (atomic_sub_return((a), (v)) == 0)
#define atomic_dec_and_test(v) (atomic_dec_return((v)) == 0)