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Commit 30246557 authored by Luca Barbieri's avatar Luca Barbieri Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, asm: Refactor atomic64_386_32.S to support old binutils and be cleaner



The old code didn't work on binutils 2.12 because setting a symbol to
a register apparently requires a fairly recent version.

This commit refactors the code to use the C preprocessor instead, and
in the process makes the whole code a bit easier to understand.

The object code produced is unchanged as expected.

This fixes kernel bugzilla 16506.

Reported-by: default avatarDieter Stussy <kd6lvw+software@kd6lvw.ampr.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35
LKML-Reference: <tip-*@git.kernel.org>
parent 8fd49936
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