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Joe Perches
8121019cad include/asm-x86/cmpxchg_32.h: checkpatch cleanups - formatting only
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-04-17 17:41:22 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
3078b79d25 x86: cast cmpxchg and cmpxchg_local result for 386 and 486
mm/slub.c: In function 'slab_alloc':
mm/slub.c:1637: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
mm/slub.c:1637: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
mm/slub.c: In function 'slab_free':
mm/slub.c:1796: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
mm/slub.c:1796: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

A cast is needed in the 386 and 486 code because the type is a pointer.  In
every other integer case the original cmpxchg code (and the cmpxchg_local
which has been copied from it) worked fine, but since we touch a pointer,
the type needs to be casted in the cmpxchg_local and cmpxchg macros.

The more recent code (586+) does not have this problem (the cast is already
there).

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-03-21 17:06:15 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
2c0b8a7578 x86: fall back on interrupt disable in cmpxchg8b on 80386 and 80486
Actually, on 386, cmpxchg and cmpxchg_local fall back on
cmpxchg_386_u8/16/32: it disables interruptions around non atomic
updates to mimic the cmpxchg behavior.

The comment:
/* Poor man's cmpxchg for 386. Unsuitable for SMP */

already present in cmpxchg_386_u32 tells much about how this cmpxchg
implementation should not be used in a SMP context. However, the cmpxchg_local
can perfectly use this fallback, since it only needs to be atomic wrt the local
cpu.

This patch adds a cmpxchg_486_u64 and uses it as a fallback for cmpxchg64
and cmpxchg64_local on 80386 and 80486.

Q:
but why is it called cmpxchg_486 when the other functions are called

A:
Because the standard cmpxchg is missing only on 386, but cmpxchg8b is
missing both on 386 and 486.

Citing Intel's Instruction set reference:

cmpxchg:
This instruction is not supported on Intel processors earlier than the
Intel486 processors.

cmpxchg8b:
This instruction encoding is not supported on Intel processors earlier
than the Pentium processors.

Q:
What's the reason to have cmpxchg64_local on 32 bit architectures?
Without that need all this would just be a few simple defines.

A:
cmpxchg64_local on 32 bits architectures takes unsigned long long
parameters, but cmpxchg_local only takes longs. Since we have cmpxchg8b
to execute a 8 byte cmpxchg atomically on pentium and +, it makes sense
to provide a flavor of cmpxchg and cmpxchg_local using this instruction.

Also, for 32 bits architectures lacking the 64 bits atomic cmpxchg, it
makes sense _not_ to define cmpxchg64 while cmpxchg could still be
available.

Moreover, the fallback for cmpxchg8b on i386 for 386 and 486 is a

However, cmpxchg64_local will be emulated by disabling interrupts on all
architectures where it is not supported atomically.

Therefore, we *could* turn cmpxchg64_local into a cmpxchg_local, but it
would make the 386/486 fallbacks ugly, make its design different from
cmpxchg/cmpxchg64 (which really depends on atomic operations and cannot
be emulated) and require the __cmpxchg_local to be expressed as a macro
rather than an inline function so the parameters would not be fixed to
unsigned long long in every case.

So I think cmpxchg64_local makes sense there, but I am open to
suggestions.

Q:
Are there any callers?

A:
I am actually using it in LTTng in my timestamping code. I use it to
work around CPUs with asynchronous TSCs. I need to update 64 bits
values atomically on this 32 bits architecture.

Changelog:
- Ran though checkpatch.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:30:47 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
96a388de5d i386/x86_64: move headers to include/asm-x86
Move the headers to include/asm-x86 and fixup the
header install make rules

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-11 11:20:03 +02:00
Renamed from include/asm-i386/cmpxchg.h (Browse further)