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Commit 1fc7e593 authored by Leo Yan's avatar Leo Yan Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf auxtrace: Drop legacy __sync functions

The main purpose for using __sync built-in functions is to support
compat mode for 32-bit perf with 64-bit kernel.  But using these
built-in functions might cause potential issues.

__sync functions originally support Intel Itanium processoer [1] but it
cannot promise to support all 32-bit archs.  Now these functions have
become the legacy functions.

Considering __sync functions cannot really fix the 64-bit value
atomicity on 32-bit archs, thus this patch drops __sync functions.

Credits to Peter for detailed analysis.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fsync-Builtins.html#g_t_005f_005fsync-Builtins



Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLeo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel Díaz <daniel.diaz@linaro.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210809111407.596077-7-leo.yan@linaro.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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