Re: [tip:perfcounters/urgent] x86: atomic64: Move the 32-bitatomic64_t implementation to a .c file

[Ingo Molnar]

* Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> tip-bot for Ingo Molnar writes:
> 
> > Also, while at it, rename all uses of 'unsigned long long' to
> > the much shorter u64.
> > 
> > This makes the appearance of the prototypes a lot nicer - and
> > it also uncovered a few bugs where (yet unused) API variants
> > had 'long' as their return type instead of u64.
> 
> Did you consider making atomic64_t a signed type on 32-bit x86 
> like it is on all 64-bit platforms, and like atomic_t is 
> everywhere?

That did not occur to me and it makes sense - this would clean up a 
few explicit s64 casts we do there currently.

	Ingo
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