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author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2007-10-18 06:06:39 -0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-18 17:37:29 -0400 |
commit | 26333576fd0d0b52f6e4025c5aded97e188bdd44 (patch) | |
tree | a9c1f9518d940a8ef10453871f2899ca18d46efa /Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |
parent | 38048983e14c0fb6324175fbaf2be1baa842f5ee (diff) |
bitops: introduce lock ops
Introduce test_and_set_bit_lock / clear_bit_unlock bitops with lock semantics.
Convert all architectures to use the generic implementation.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/memory-barriers.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 650657c54733..4e17beba2379 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | |||
@@ -1479,7 +1479,8 @@ kernel. | |||
1479 | 1479 | ||
1480 | Any atomic operation that modifies some state in memory and returns information | 1480 | Any atomic operation that modifies some state in memory and returns information |
1481 | about the state (old or new) implies an SMP-conditional general memory barrier | 1481 | about the state (old or new) implies an SMP-conditional general memory barrier |
1482 | (smp_mb()) on each side of the actual operation. These include: | 1482 | (smp_mb()) on each side of the actual operation (with the exception of |
1483 | explicit lock operations, described later). These include: | ||
1483 | 1484 | ||
1484 | xchg(); | 1485 | xchg(); |
1485 | cmpxchg(); | 1486 | cmpxchg(); |
@@ -1536,10 +1537,19 @@ If they're used for constructing a lock of some description, then they probably | |||
1536 | do need memory barriers as a lock primitive generally has to do things in a | 1537 | do need memory barriers as a lock primitive generally has to do things in a |
1537 | specific order. | 1538 | specific order. |
1538 | 1539 | ||
1539 | |||
1540 | Basically, each usage case has to be carefully considered as to whether memory | 1540 | Basically, each usage case has to be carefully considered as to whether memory |
1541 | barriers are needed or not. | 1541 | barriers are needed or not. |
1542 | 1542 | ||
1543 | The following operations are special locking primitives: | ||
1544 | |||
1545 | test_and_set_bit_lock(); | ||
1546 | clear_bit_unlock(); | ||
1547 | __clear_bit_unlock(); | ||
1548 | |||
1549 | These implement LOCK-class and UNLOCK-class operations. These should be used in | ||
1550 | preference to other operations when implementing locking primitives, because | ||
1551 | their implementations can be optimised on many architectures. | ||
1552 | |||
1543 | [!] Note that special memory barrier primitives are available for these | 1553 | [!] Note that special memory barrier primitives are available for these |
1544 | situations because on some CPUs the atomic instructions used imply full memory | 1554 | situations because on some CPUs the atomic instructions used imply full memory |
1545 | barriers, and so barrier instructions are superfluous in conjunction with them, | 1555 | barriers, and so barrier instructions are superfluous in conjunction with them, |