Re: [PATCH 04/13] atomics/treewide: make atomic_fetch_add_unless() optional

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed May 23 2018 - 09:09:27 EST


On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Several architectures these have a near-identical implementation based
> on atomic_read() and atomic_cmpxchg() that we can instead define in
> <linux/atomic.h>, so let's do so, using something close to the existing
> x86 implementation with try_cmpxchg().
>
> Where an architecture provides its own atomic_fetch_add_unless(), it
> must define a preprocessor symbol for it. The instrumented atomics are
> updated accordingly.
>
> Note that arch/arc's existing atomic_fetch_add_unless() had redundant
> barriers, as these are already present in its atomic_cmpxchg()
> implementation.
>
> There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>

> arch/m68k/include/asm/atomic.h | 15 ---------------
> include/linux/atomic.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++

For m68k:
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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