lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementation
authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:10:05 +0000 (21:10 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:27:38 +0000 (13:27 +1000)
commit09d4e0edd4614e787393acc582ac701c6ec3565b
tree77f3b85e0f59a168ac78639e510ebcbd3791b3d2
parent4c75f84f2c781beb230031234ed961d28771a764
lib: Provide generic atomic64_t implementation

Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but
we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem.

This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed
spinlocks to provide atomicity.  For each atomic operation, the address
of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16
spinlocks.  That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the
operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock.

On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable
interrupts around each operation.  In fact gcc eliminates the whole
atomic64_lock variable as well.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
include/asm-generic/atomic64.h [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/Kconfig
lib/Makefile
lib/atomic64.c [new file with mode: 0644]