On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:54:38 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Use the new generic cmpxchg_local (disables interrupt) for 8, 16 and
> 64 bits cmpxchg_local. Use the __cmpxchg_u32 primitive for 32 bits
> cmpxchg_local.
>
> Note that cmpxchg only uses the __cmpxchg_u32 or __cmpxchg_u64 and
> will cause a linker error if called with 8 or 16 bits argument.
Actually, you'll get a linker error if it's called with a 64-bit
argument too. But your patch doesn't use __cmpxchg_u64 so it's fine.
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Looks good to me. I suppose we _could_ implement 8- and 16-bit cmpxchg
using stcond, but I really doubt it's worth it.
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>
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