linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 20/33] locking/atomic: m68k: move to ARCH

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Date:   Tue, 11 May 2021 12:27:18 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/33] locking/atomic: m68k: move to ARCH_ATOMIC

Hi Mark,

CC Greg

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 12:00 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 11:27:45AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 11:42 AM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
> > > We'd like all architectures to convert to ARCH_ATOMIC, as once all
> > > architectures are converted it will be possible to make significant
> > > cleanups to the atomics headers, and this will make it much easier to
> > > generically enable atomic functionality (e.g. debug logic in the
> > > instrumented wrappers).
> > >
> > > As a step towards that, this patch migrates m68k to ARCH_ATOMIC. The
> > > arch code provides arch_{atomic,atomic64,xchg,cmpxchg}*(), and common
> > > code wraps these with optional instrumentation to provide the regular
> > > functions.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> > Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> >
> > I even gave this series a spin on ARAnyM and QEMU, and everything
> > seems to be fine.
>
> Thanks! That's much appreciated; I was able to build-test, but didn't
> have a suitable setup for boot testing.
>
> The Kbuild test robot noticed I broke one configuration by renaming
> atomic_dec_and_test_lt(), since it's not part of the common atomic API,
> and is used in get_mmu_context() in <asm/mmu_context.h>.

Ah, that's in the part for Coldfire, so I (and my builds) didn't notice.

> On the primciple of keeping the common atomic API separate from
> arch-specific bits, I've kept the `arch_` prefix and updated the caller.
> Does that sound good to you?

That's fine for me, but as this is Coldfire, I'd like to defer to Greg.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

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