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locking/atomic, arch/sparc: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:16:04 +0000 (01:16 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 16 Jun 2016 08:48:30 +0000 (10:48 +0200)
commit3a1adb23a52c920304239efff377d3bc967febc2
tree63383d193b7a7adaec40939daac2cdd22326108a
parent7d9794e7523798e1b9422ad9f4e4d808ae5d5932
locking/atomic, arch/sparc: Implement atomic{,64}_fetch_{add,sub,and,or,xor}()

Implement FETCH-OP atomic primitives, these are very similar to the
existing OP-RETURN primitives we already have, except they return the
value of the atomic variable _before_ modification.

This is especially useful for irreversible operations -- such as
bitops (because it becomes impossible to reconstruct the state prior
to modification).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: James Y Knight <jyknight@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/sparc/include/asm/atomic.h
arch/sparc/include/asm/atomic_32.h
arch/sparc/include/asm/atomic_64.h
arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c
arch/sparc/lib/atomic_64.S
arch/sparc/lib/ksyms.c