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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>
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