Re: [PATCH] sparc: Provide cmpxchg64 for 32-bit builds

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Sep 28 2017 - 00:38:33 EST


From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:29:31 -0700

> Fix the following build error, seen when building sparc32:allmodconfig.
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c:
> In function 'i40e_set_priv_flags':
> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_ethtool.c:4150:2: error:
> implicit declaration of function 'cmpxchg64'
>
> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

That fixes the build:

> @@ -72,5 +72,6 @@ __cmpxchg(volatile void *ptr, unsigned long old, unsigned long new_, int size)
> ((__typeof__(*(ptr)))__cmpxchg_local_generic((ptr), (unsigned long)(o),\
> (unsigned long)(n), sizeof(*(ptr))))
> #define cmpxchg64_local(ptr, o, n) __cmpxchg64_local_generic((ptr), (o), (n))
> +#define cmpxchg64(ptr, o, n) cmpxchg64_local((ptr), (o), (n))
>
> #endif /* __ARCH_SPARC_CMPXCHG__ */

but it's wrong. cmpxchg64_local() is only atomic on the current cpu
so using it for plain cmpxchg64() is not going to work.