On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com> wrote:
> Rationals from Eric:
>
> So I just looked a little deeper and it appears architectures that do
> not support atomic64_t are broken.
>
> The generic atomic64 support came in 2009 to support the perf subsystem
> with the expectation that all architectures would implement atomic64
> support.
>
> Furthermore upon inspection of the kernel atomic64_t is used in a fair
> number of places beyond the performance counters:
>
> block/blk-cgroup.c
> drivers/acpi/apei/
> drivers/block/rbd.c
> drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
> drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.h
> drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/
> drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/
> drivers/staging/octeon/
> fs/xfs/
> include/linux/perf_event.h
> include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct.h
> kernel/events/
> kernel/trace/
> net/mac80211/key.h
> net/rds/
>
> The block control group, infiniband, xfs, crypto, 802.11, netfilter.
> Nothing quite so fundamental as fs/namespace.c but definitely in
> multiplatform-code that should work, and is already broken on those
> architecutres.
>
> Looking at the implementation of atomic64_add_return in lib/atomic64.c
> the code looks as efficient as these kinds of things get.
>
> Which leads me to the conclusion that we need atomic64 support on all
> architectures.
>
> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
> ---
> arch/mn10300/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> --- linux.orig/arch/mn10300/Kconfig 2012-08-03 15:36:21.391560778 +0800
> +++ linux/arch/mn10300/Kconfig 2012-08-14 22:53:14.751795832 +0800
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ config MN10300
> select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
> select HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG if MN10300_WD_TIMER
> select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS
> + select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
>
> config AM33_2
> def_bool n
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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