Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86-32: improve atomic64_t functions (v2)
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Mar 01 2010 - 02:36:05 EST
On 02/26/2010 03:23 AM, Luca Barbieri wrote:
> Sent patches, both to conditionally perform the test and implement the
> functions for x86 and x86-64.
Yes, and with the test turned on, the kernel crashes immediately on boot
on x86-64.
Some minor investigation reveals the following:
lib/atomic64.c has the wrong return value for atomic64_add_unless().
With "wrong" I mean it is the opposite sense compared to
atomic_add_unless(), not just on x86 but on all architectures.
Accordingly, I have to conclude that lib/atomic64.c is buggy, and that
since your test matches that bug, I will have to conclude that your
x86-32 implementation is also buggy. Thus, please send patches to fix
your test and your 32-bit implementations (and preferrably
lib/atomic64.c too, but I can do that just fine.)
Cc: Paul Mackerras who did the generic atomic64_t implementation for
verification that this is indeed a bug.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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