From 09d4e0edd4614e787393acc582ac701c6ec3565b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:10:05 +0000 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- lib/Makefile | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib/Makefile') diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile index 34c5c0e6222e..8e9bcf9d3261 100644 --- a/lib/Makefile +++ b/lib/Makefile @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DMA_API_DEBUG) += dma-debug.o obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_CSUM) += checksum.o +obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64) += atomic64.o + hostprogs-y := gen_crc32table clean-files := crc32table.h -- cgit v1.2.3