linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86_64 - Use non locked version for local

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:19:13 -0400
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86_64 - Use non locked version for local_cmpxchg()

x86_64 - Use non locked version for local_cmpxchg()

local_cmpxchg() should not use any LOCK prefix. This change probably got lost in
the move to cmpxchg.h.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
---
 include/asm-x86_64/cmpxchg.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-x86_64/cmpxchg.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-lttng.orig/include/asm-x86_64/cmpxchg.h	2007-07-10 01:10:10.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6-lttng/include/asm-x86_64/cmpxchg.h	2007-07-10 01:11:03.000000000 -0400
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 	((__typeof__(*(ptr)))__cmpxchg((ptr),(unsigned long)(o),\
 					(unsigned long)(n),sizeof(*(ptr))))
 #define cmpxchg_local(ptr,o,n)\
-	((__typeof__(*(ptr)))__cmpxchg((ptr),(unsigned long)(o),\
+	((__typeof__(*(ptr)))__cmpxchg_local((ptr),(unsigned long)(o),\
 					(unsigned long)(n),sizeof(*(ptr))))
 
 #endif

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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