h8300: select generic atomic64_t support

Rationales from Eric:

So I just looked a little deeper and it appears architectures that do
not support atomic64_t are broken.

The generic atomic64 support came in 2009 to support the perf subsystem
with the expectation that all architectures would implement atomic64
support.

Furthermore upon inspection of the kernel atomic64_t is used in a fair
number of places beyond the performance counters:

block/blk-cgroup.c
drivers/acpi/apei/
drivers/block/rbd.c
drivers/crypto/nx/nx.h
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/
drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/
drivers/staging/octeon/
fs/xfs/
include/linux/perf_event.h
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct.h
kernel/events/
kernel/trace/
net/mac80211/key.h
net/rds/

The block control group, infiniband, xfs, crypto, 802.11, netfilter.
Nothing quite so fundamental as fs/namespace.c but definitely in
multiplatform-code that should work, and is already broken on those
architecutres.

Looking at the implementation of atomic64_add_return in lib/atomic64.c the
code looks as efficient as these kinds of things get.

Which leads me to the conclusion that we need atomic64 support on all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/h8300/Kconfig b/arch/h8300/Kconfig
index 98fabd10e95fbb6f9a6b2d44700e0ae68fda3b68..2d2efb653ee0a9ecefe1b89b69e1aae08ad73ff2 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/h8300/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/h8300/Kconfig
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config H8300
        default y
        select HAVE_IDE
        select HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS
+       select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
        select HAVE_UID16
        select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
        select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW