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Commit 79e1dd05 authored by Arjan van de Ven's avatar Arjan van de Ven Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: Provide an alternative() based cmpxchg64()



cmpxchg64() today generates, to quote Linus, "barf bag" code.

cmpxchg64() is about to get used in the scheduler to fix a bug there,
but it's a prerequisite that cmpxchg64() first be made non-sucking.

This patch turns cmpxchg64() into an efficient implementation that
uses the alternative() mechanism to just use the raw instruction on
all modern systems.

Note: the fallback is NOT smp safe, just like the current fallback
is not SMP safe. (Interested parties with i486 based SMP systems
are welcome to submit fix patches for that.)

Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[ fixed asm constraint bug ]
Fixed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 17d857be
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