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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2024-03-18 00:44:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2024-04-10 08:06:00 +0300 |
| commit | a88d970c8bb55dc20f319ce3e33c7ce0e9647480 (patch) | |
| tree | 3018a3725478213510ae0620aac3c54ca6996149 /arch | |
| parent | d428032b3524e8fc75cf0bcc86b409df8ddf532b (diff) | |
| download | linux-a88d970c8bb55dc20f319ce3e33c7ce0e9647480.tar.xz | |
lib: Add one-byte emulation function
Architectures are required to provide four-byte cmpxchg() and 64-bit
architectures are additionally required to provide eight-byte cmpxchg().
However, there are cases where one-byte cmpxchg() would be extremely
useful. Therefore, provide cmpxchg_emu_u8() that emulates one-byte
cmpxchg() in terms of four-byte cmpxchg().
Note that this emulations is fully ordered, and can (for example) cause
one-byte cmpxchg_relaxed() to incur the overhead of full ordering.
If this causes problems for a given architecture, that architecture is
free to provide its own lighter-weight primitives.
[ paulmck: Apply Marco Elver feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Drop two-byte support per Arnd Bergmann feedback. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0733eb10-5e7a-4450-9b8a-527b97c842ff@paulmck-laptop/
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 9f066785bb71..284663392eef 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -1609,4 +1609,7 @@ config CC_HAS_SANE_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT # strict alignment always, even with -falign-functions. def_bool CC_HAS_MIN_FUNCTION_ALIGNMENT || CC_IS_CLANG +config ARCH_NEED_CMPXCHG_1_EMU + bool + endmenu |