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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig b/lib/Kconfig
index 9960be04cbbe..bb1326d3839c 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig
+++ b/lib/Kconfig
@@ -194,4 +194,10 @@ config DISABLE_OBSOLETE_CPUMASK_FUNCTIONS
 config NLATTR
         bool
 
+#
+# Generic 64-bit atomic support is selected if needed
+#
+config GENERIC_ATOMIC64
+       bool
+
 endmenu