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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2009-06-12 21:10:05 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-06-15 13:27:38 +1000
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lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementation
Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem. This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed spinlocks to provide atomicity. For each atomic operation, the address of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16 spinlocks. That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock. On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable interrupts around each operation. In fact gcc eliminates the whole atomic64_lock variable as well. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 9960be04cbbe..bb1326d3839c 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -194,4 +194,10 @@ config DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
config NLATTR
bool
+#
+# Generic 64-bit atomic support is selected if needed
+#
+config GENERIC_ATOMIC64
+ bool
+
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