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| author | Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> | 2011-07-13 13:14:22 +0800 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2011-08-03 11:12:37 -0400 |
| commit | df013ffb8119c89f062ab05b7f544704315db47b (patch) | |
| tree | db87f30545d2fd6cf9b0a547f09d924df3be90dd /arch/alpha | |
| parent | 9fb0bfe1408d5506b7b83d13d1eed573fd71d67d (diff) | |
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Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
cmpxchg() is widely used by lockless code, including NMI-safe lockless
code. But on some architectures, the cmpxchg() implementation is not
NMI-safe, on these architectures the lockless code may need a
spin_trylock_irqsave() based implementation.
This patch adds a Kconfig option: ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, so that
NMI-safe lockless code can depend on it or provide different
implementation according to it.
On many architectures, cmpxchg is only NMI-safe for several specific
operand sizes. So, ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG define in this patch
only guarantees cmpxchg is NMI-safe for sizeof(unsigned long).
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
CC: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
CC: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
CC: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
CC: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
CC: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
CC: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
CC: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
CC: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
CC: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig index 60219bf94198..23f8d8c32886 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig +++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ config ALPHA select AUTO_IRQ_AFFINITY if SMP select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB + select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG help The Alpha is a 64-bit general-purpose processor designed and marketed by the Digital Equipment Corporation of blessed memory, |