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author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2009-06-12 17:10:05 -0400 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2009-06-14 23:27:38 -0400 |
commit | 09d4e0edd4614e787393acc582ac701c6ec3565b (patch) | |
tree | 77f3b85e0f59a168ac78639e510ebcbd3791b3d2 /arch/powerpc/Kconfig | |
parent | 4c75f84f2c781beb230031234ed961d28771a764 (diff) |
lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementation
Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but
we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem.
This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed
spinlocks to provide atomicity. For each atomic operation, the address
of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16
spinlocks. That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the
operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock.
On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable
interrupts around each operation. In fact gcc eliminates the whole
atomic64_lock variable as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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