linux/include/asm-alpha, branch v2.6.15.5

[PATCH] __cmpxchg() must really always be inlined

2006-02-10T07:20:17Z

With the latest 2.6.15 kernel builds for alpha on Debian, we ran into a problem with undefined references to __cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer() in a couple of kernel modules (xfs.ko and drm.ko; see http://bugs.debian.org/347556). It looks like people have been trying to out-clever each other wrt the definition of "inline" on this architecture :), with the result that __cmpxchg(), which must be inlined so the compiler can see its argument is const, is not guaranteed to be inlined. Indeed, it was not being inlined when building with -Os. The attached patch fixes the issue by adding an __attribute__((always_inline)) explicitly to the definition of __cmpxchg() instead of relying on redefines of "inline" elsewhere to make this happen. Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] mm: fill arch atomic64 gaps

2005-11-24T00:08:39Z

alpha, sparc64, x86_64 are each missing some primitives from their atomic64 support: fill in the gaps I've noticed by extrapolating asm, follow the groupings in each file. But powerpc and parisc still lack atomic64. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] atomic: inc_not_zero

2005-11-14T02:14:16Z

Introduce an atomic_inc_not_zero operation. Make this a special case of atomic_add_unless because lockless pagecache actually wants atomic_inc_not_negativeone due to its offset refcount. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] atomic: cmpxchg

2005-11-14T02:14:16Z

Introduce an atomic_cmpxchg operation. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ide: move CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS into linux/ide.h

2005-11-09T21:58:07Z

CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS is a generic thing, no need to have it duplicated by every arch that uses it. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

[PATCH] consolidate sys_ptrace()

2005-11-07T15:53:42Z

The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most architectures. This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the arch-specific code as arch_ptrace. Some architectures have a too different ptrace so we have to exclude them. They continue to keep their implementations. For sh64 I had to add a sh64_ptrace wrapper because it does some initialization on the first call. For um I removed an ifdefed SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL block, but SUBARCH_PTRACE_SPECIAL isn't defined anywhere in the tree. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Paul Mackerras Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Acked-By: David Howells Acked-by: Russell King Acked-by: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix remaining missing includes

2005-11-07T15:53:41Z

Fix more include file problems that surfaced since I submitted the previous fix-missing-includes.patch. This should now allow not to include sched.h from module.h, which is done by a followup patch. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] semaphore: Remove __MUTEX_INITIALIZER()

2005-10-31T01:37:27Z

__MUTEX_INITIALIZER() has no users, and equates to the more commonly used DECLARE_MUTEX(), thus making it pretty much redundant. Remove it for good. Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] add sem_is_read/write_locked()

2005-10-30T04:40:35Z

Add sem_is_read/write_locked functions to the read/write semaphores, along the same lines of the *_is_locked spinlock functions. The swap token tuning patch uses sem_is_read_locked; sem_is_write_locked is added for completeness. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fix alpha breakage

2005-10-30T04:40:35Z

barrier.h uses barrier() in non-SMP case. And doesn't include compiler.h. Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds