Re: [PATCH 9/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on ia64

[Andreas Schwab]

"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> That's distressing.  I'm about to resubmit with a volatile cast in 
>> atomic_set as well, since people expect that behavior and I've been 
>> shown a legitimate case where it could matter.  Does the assembly look 
>> right with that cast in atomic_set() as well?
>
> No.  With the casts to volatile in atomic_set and atomic64_set I
> still see places where ld8 is changed to ld4 + sign-extend.

Use atomic64_read to read an atomic64_t.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx>

diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/atomic.h b/include/asm-ia64/atomic.h
index 1fc3b83..50c2b83 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/atomic.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/atomic.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ ia64_atomic64_add (__s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
 
 	do {
 		CMPXCHG_BUGCHECK(v);
-		old = atomic_read(v);
+		old = atomic64_read(v);
 		new = old + i;
 	} while (ia64_cmpxchg(acq, v, old, new, sizeof(atomic64_t)) != old);
 	return new;
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ ia64_atomic64_sub (__s64 i, atomic64_t *v)
 
 	do {
 		CMPXCHG_BUGCHECK(v);
-		old = atomic_read(v);
+		old = atomic64_read(v);
 		new = old - i;
 	} while (ia64_cmpxchg(acq, v, old, new, sizeof(atomic64_t)) != old);
 	return new;

Andreas.

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