asm-generic: don't warn that atomic_t is only 24 bit

32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of 24-bit of it's atomic_t type.
This was corrected with linux 2.6.3 when Keith M Wesolowski changed the
implementation to use the parisc approach of having an array of spinlocks
to protect the atomic_t.

These warnings were also removed from the sparc implementation when the
new implementation was merged in BKrev:402e4949VThdc6D3iaosSFUgabMfvw, but
the warning still remained in some other places without any 24-bit-only
atomic_t implementation inside the kernel.

We should remove these warnings to allow users to rely on the full 32-bit
range of atomic_t.

Signed-off-by: Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/atomic.h b/include/asm-generic/atomic.h
index c33749f95b3..058129e9b04 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/atomic.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/atomic.h
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
  * atomic_read - read atomic variable
  * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
  *
- * Atomically reads the value of @v.  Note that the guaranteed
- * useful range of an atomic_t is only 24 bits.
+ * Atomically reads the value of @v.
  */
 #define atomic_read(v)  (*(volatile int *)&(v)->counter)
 
@@ -40,8 +39,7 @@
  * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
  * @i: required value
  *
- * Atomically sets the value of @v to @i.  Note that the guaranteed
- * useful range of an atomic_t is only 24 bits.
+ * Atomically sets the value of @v to @i.
  */
 #define atomic_set(v, i) (((v)->counter) = (i))
 
@@ -53,7 +51,6 @@
  * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
  *
  * Atomically adds @i to @v and returns the result
- * Note that the guaranteed useful range of an atomic_t is only 24 bits.
  */
 static inline int atomic_add_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
 {
@@ -75,7 +72,6 @@ static inline int atomic_add_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
  * @v: pointer of type atomic_t
  *
  * Atomically subtracts @i from @v and returns the result
- * Note that the guaranteed useful range of an atomic_t is only 24 bits.
  */
 static inline int atomic_sub_return(int i, atomic_t *v)
 {