linux/arch
Roland Dreier dbee8a0aff x86: remove 32-bit versions of readq()/writeq()
The presense of a writeq() implementation on 32-bit x86 that splits the
64-bit write into two 32-bit writes turns out to break the mpt2sas driver
(and in general is risky for drivers as was discussed in
<http://lkml.kernel.org/r/adaab6c1h7c.fsf@cisco.com>).  To fix this,
revert 2c5643b1c5 ("x86: provide readq()/writeq() on 32-bit too") and
follow-on cleanups.

This unfortunately leads to pushing non-atomic definitions of readq() and
write() to various x86-only drivers that in the meantime started using the
definitions in the x86 version of <asm/io.h>.  However as discussed
exhaustively, this is actually the right thing to do, because the right
way to split a 64-bit transaction is hardware dependent and therefore
belongs in the hardware driver (eg mpt2sas needs a spinlock to make sure
no other accesses occur in between the two halves of the access).

Build tested on 32- and 64-bit x86 allmodconfig.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/x86-32-writeq-is-broken@mdm.bga.com
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Cc: Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Anand <ravi.anand@qlogic.com>
Cc: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:44 -07:00
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alpha Remove unused PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY constant 2011-05-25 08:39:43 -07:00
arm Remove unused PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY constant 2011-05-25 08:39:43 -07:00
avr32 mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2011-05-24 11:53:42 -07:00
cris cris: convert old cpumask API into new one 2011-05-25 08:39:39 -07:00
frv mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
h8300 genirq: Remove the now obsolete config options and select statements 2011-03-30 14:13:23 +02:00
ia64 mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
m32r Remove unused PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY constant 2011-05-25 08:39:43 -07:00
m68k mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
microblaze mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
mips mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
mn10300 mn10300: convert old cpumask API into new one 2011-05-25 08:39:39 -07:00
parisc Remove unused PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY constant 2011-05-25 08:39:43 -07:00
powerpc mm, powerpc: move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
s390 mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
score mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
sh mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
sparc mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
tile mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
um Remove unused PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY constant 2011-05-25 08:39:43 -07:00
unicore32 mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
x86 x86: remove 32-bit versions of readq()/writeq() 2011-05-25 08:39:44 -07:00
xtensa mm: now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00
.gitignore
Kconfig mm, powerpc: move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code 2011-05-25 08:39:16 -07:00