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Commit 3824abd1 authored by Christoph Lameter's avatar Christoph Lameter Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86: Add support for cmpxchg_double



A simple implementation that only supports the word size and does not
have a fallback mode (would require a spinlock).

Add 32 and 64 bit support for cmpxchg_double. cmpxchg double uses
the cmpxchg8b or cmpxchg16b instruction on x86 processors to compare
and swap 2 machine words. This allows lockless algorithms to move more
context information through critical sections.

Set a flag CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE to signal that support for double word
cmpxchg detection has been build into the kernel. Note that each subsystem
using cmpxchg_double has to implement a fall back mechanism as long as
we offer support for processors that do not implement cmpxchg_double.

Reviewed-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601172614.173427964@linux.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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