From df013ffb8119c89f062ab05b7f544704315db47b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Huang Ying Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:14:22 +0800 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Mike Frysinger Acked-by: Paul Mundt Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Acked-by: Chris Metcalf Acked-by: Richard Henderson CC: Mikael Starvik Acked-by: David Howells CC: Yoshinori Sato CC: Tony Luck CC: Hirokazu Takata CC: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Michal Simek Acked-by: Ralf Baechle CC: Kyle McMartin CC: Martin Schwidefsky CC: Chen Liqin CC: "David S. Miller" CC: Ingo Molnar CC: Chris Zankel Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index da349723d411..a680a60898de 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ config X86 select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING select USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS if SMP select HAVE_BPF_JIT if (X86_64 && NET) + select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG config INSTRUCTION_DECODER def_bool (KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS) -- cgit v1.2.3