The Alpha ll/sc primitives do not imply any sort of barrier; therefore the smp_mb__{before,after} should be a full barrier. This is the default from asm-generic/barrier.h and therefore just remove the current definitions. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra --- arch/alpha/include/asm/atomic.h | 5 ----- arch/alpha/include/asm/bitops.h | 3 --- 2 files changed, 8 deletions(-) --- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/atomic.h +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/atomic.h @@ -292,9 +292,4 @@ static inline long atomic64_dec_if_posit #define atomic_dec(v) atomic_sub(1,(v)) #define atomic64_dec(v) atomic64_sub(1,(v)) -#define smp_mb__before_atomic_dec() smp_mb() -#define smp_mb__after_atomic_dec() smp_mb() -#define smp_mb__before_atomic_inc() smp_mb() -#define smp_mb__after_atomic_inc() smp_mb() - #endif /* _ALPHA_ATOMIC_H */ --- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/bitops.h +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/bitops.h @@ -53,9 +53,6 @@ __set_bit(unsigned long nr, volatile voi *m |= 1 << (nr & 31); } -#define smp_mb__before_clear_bit() smp_mb() -#define smp_mb__after_clear_bit() smp_mb() - static inline void clear_bit(unsigned long nr, volatile void * addr) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/