The atomic operations in asm/atomic.h are really useful from userspace too.
Other architectures (i386, x86_64, mips) export these to userspace, but the
powerpc versions are guarded by __KERNEL__ for some reason. Can we remove
these if there is no good reason to guard them?
Signed-off-by: Brent Cook <bcook at bpointsys.com>
Index: linux-2.6-bps/include/asm-powerpc/atomic.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-bps/include/asm-powerpc/atomic.h (revision 77)
+++ linux-2.6-bps/include/asm-powerpc/atomic.h (working copy)
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
typedef struct { volatile int counter; } atomic_t;
-#ifdef __KERNEL__
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <asm/synch.h>
#include <asm/asm-compat.h>
@@ -414,5 +413,4 @@
#endif /* __powerpc64__ */
#include <asm-generic/atomic.h>
-#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_ATOMIC_H_ */
