linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 07/18] atomics: prepare for atomic64_fetch_add

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:10:55 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, will.deacon@....com,
        peterz@...radead.org, boqun.feng@...il.com
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <albert@...ive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 07/18] atomics: prepare for atomic64_fetch_add_unless()

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:19:08AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Currently architecture must implement atomic_fetch_add_unless(), with
> common code providing atomic_add_unless(). Architectures must also
> implement atmic64_add_unless() directly, with no corresponding
> atomic64_fetch_add_unless().
> 
> This divergenece is unfortunate, and means that the APIs for atomic_t,
> atomic64_t, and atomic_long_t differ.
> 
> In preparation for unifying things, with architectures providing
> atomic64_fetch_add_unless, this patch adds a generic
> atomic64_add_unless() which will use atomic64_fetch_add_unless(). The
> instrumented atomics are updated to take this case into account.

> +#ifdef arch_atomic64_fetch_add_unless
> +#define atomic64_fetch_add_unless atomic64_fetch_add_unless
> +static __always_inline int atomic64_fetch_add_unless(atomic64_t *v, s64 a, s64 u)

Whoops: s/int/s64/ here

I've fixed that up in my branch.

Thanks,
Mark.