Re: [Suggestion] ARM64: kernel: compiling issue, need implement cmpxchg64 with assembler language.

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sat Apr 20 2013 - 03:32:33 EST


On Saturday 20 April 2013 10:28:55 Chen Gang wrote:
>
> -------------------------------patch begin--------------------------------------
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> index 968b5cb..b572d2b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> @@ -170,4 +170,6 @@ static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg_mb(volatile void *ptr, unsigned long old,
> (unsigned long)(n), \
> sizeof(*(ptr))))
>
> +#define cmpxchg64(ptr,o,n) cmpxchg((ptr),(o),(n))
> +
> #endif /* __ASM_CMPXCHG_H */

Yes, this looks good. Please provide the same for cmpxchg64_local.

> -------------------------------patch end----------------------------------------
>
>
>
> I think, we can also reference the implementation of s390:
> it is in arch/s390/include/asm/cmpxchg.h.
> since we are ARM64, excluding ARM(32,16...), we can only consider 64-bit.
> if in the future, ARM64 and ARM are merged together:
> we can use CONFIG_64BIT to switch the cmpxchg64 definition.
> if define CONFIG_64BIT, use cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg64.
> else, use the definition of ARM (arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h already defines cmpxchg64)

I would not worry aobut merging the two at the moment.

> -------------------------------reference begin----------------------------------
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> #define cmpxchg64(ptr, o, n) \
> ({ \
> cmpxchg((ptr), (o), (n)); \
> })
> #else /* CONFIG_64BIT */
> ...
> -------------------------------reference end------------------------------------

This implementation in unnecessarily verbose, I think the one you have
above is nicer.

Arnd
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