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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2013-09-19 19:06:46 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-20 11:04:28 -0500
commit8f4c344696b9f9f8471d7f342076ef10ed7f66a5 (patch)
tree5266f6e86c81f6694f75e77c84c64a55123b04b1 /lib/lockref.c
parentdcb30e659287a6b40dafed1362532da42ec27229 (diff)
downloadlinux-8f4c344696b9f9f8471d7f342076ef10ed7f66a5.tar.gz
lockref: use cmpxchg64 explicitly for lockless updates
The cmpxchg() function tends not to support 64-bit arguments on 32-bit
architectures.  This could be either due to use of unsigned long
arguments (like on ARM) or lack of instruction support (cmpxchgq on
x86).  However, these architectures may implement a specific cmpxchg64()
function to provide 64-bit cmpxchg support instead.

Since the lockref code requires a 64-bit cmpxchg and relies on the
architecture selecting ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF, move to using cmpxchg64
instead of cmpxchg and allow 32-bit architectures to make use of the
lockless lockref implementation.

Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/lockref.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/lockref.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/lockref.c b/lib/lockref.c
index e2cd2c0a8821..677d036cf3c7 100644
--- a/lib/lockref.c
+++ b/lib/lockref.c
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 	while (likely(arch_spin_value_unlocked(old.lock.rlock.raw_lock))) {  	\
 		struct lockref new = old, prev = old;				\
 		CODE								\
-		old.lock_count = cmpxchg(&lockref->lock_count,			\
-					 old.lock_count, new.lock_count);	\
+		old.lock_count = cmpxchg64(&lockref->lock_count,		\
+					   old.lock_count, new.lock_count);	\
 		if (likely(old.lock_count == prev.lock_count)) {		\
 			SUCCESS;						\
 		}								\