This series extena and standardises local_t operations on each architecture,
allowing a rich set of atomic operations to be done on per-cpu data with
minimal performance impact. On architectures where there seems to be no
difference between the SMP and UP operation (same memory barriers, same
LOCKing), local.h simply includes asm-generic/local.h, which removes
duplicated code from the current kernel tree.
This patch:
local_t: architecture independent extension
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
local_t's were defined to be unsigned. This increases confusion because
atomic_t's are signed. The patch goes through and changes all implementations
to use signed longs throughout.
Also, x86-64 was using 32-bit quantities for the value passed into local_add()
and local_sub(). Fixed.
All (actually, both) existing users have been audited.
(Also s/__inline__/inline/ in x86_64/local.h)
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Now that Christoph Lameter's atomic_long_t support is merged in mainline,
might as well convert asm-generic/local.h to use it, so the same code can
be used for both sizes of 32 and 64-bit unsigned longs.
akpm sayeth:
Q:
Is there any particular reason why these routines weren't simply
implemented with local_save/restore_flags, if they are only meant to
guarantee atomicity to the local cpu? I'm sure on most platforms this
would be more efficient than using an atomic...
A:
The whole _point_ of local_t is to avoid local_irq_disable(). It's
designed to exploit the fact that many CPUs can do incs and decs in a way
which is atomic wrt local interrupts, but not atomic wrt SMP.
But this patch makes sense, because asm-generic/local.h is just a fallback
implementation for architectures which either cannot perform these
local-irq-atomic operations, or its maintainers haven't yet got around to
implementing them.
We need more work done on local_t in the 2.6.17 timeframe - they're defined as
unsigned long, but some architectures implement them as signed long.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
