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2007-05-08local_t: architecture independent extensionMathieu Desnoyers
This series extena and standardises local_t operations on each architecture, allowing a rich set of atomic operations to be done on per-cpu data with minimal performance impact. On architectures where there seems to be no difference between the SMP and UP operation (same memory barriers, same LOCKing), local.h simply includes asm-generic/local.h, which removes duplicated code from the current kernel tree. This patch: local_t: architecture independent extension Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-04-26Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-31[PATCH] make local_t signedAndrew Morton
local_t's were defined to be unsigned. This increases confusion because atomic_t's are signed. The patch goes through and changes all implementations to use signed longs throughout. Also, x86-64 was using 32-bit quantities for the value passed into local_add() and local_sub(). Fixed. All (actually, both) existing users have been audited. (Also s/__inline__/inline/ in x86_64/local.h) Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28[PATCH] Decrapify asm-generic/local.hKyle McMartin
Now that Christoph Lameter's atomic_long_t support is merged in mainline, might as well convert asm-generic/local.h to use it, so the same code can be used for both sizes of 32 and 64-bit unsigned longs. akpm sayeth: Q: Is there any particular reason why these routines weren't simply implemented with local_save/restore_flags, if they are only meant to guarantee atomicity to the local cpu? I'm sure on most platforms this would be more efficient than using an atomic... A: The whole _point_ of local_t is to avoid local_irq_disable(). It's designed to exploit the fact that many CPUs can do incs and decs in a way which is atomic wrt local interrupts, but not atomic wrt SMP. But this patch makes sense, because asm-generic/local.h is just a fallback implementation for architectures which either cannot perform these local-irq-atomic operations, or its maintainers haven't yet got around to implementing them. We need more work done on local_t in the 2.6.17 timeframe - they're defined as unsigned long, but some architectures implement them as signed long. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!