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lockref: allow relaxed cmpxchg64 variant for lockless updates
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:27:00 +0000 (17:27 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:15:01 +0000 (09:15 -0700)
commit2cd450a097382dd83dfb084535d7859f0c605ece
tree811e0dd289daad8bdebdeef37100587f647f75c1
parentd7abe49e2a64bf9cffbe058db35ab9262ef44878
lockref: allow relaxed cmpxchg64 variant for lockless updates

The 64-bit cmpxchg operation on the lockref is ordered by virtue of
hazarding between the cmpxchg operation and the reference count
manipulation. On weakly ordered memory architectures (such as ARM), it
can be of great benefit to omit the barrier instructions where they are
not needed.

This patch moves the lockless lockref code over to a cmpxchg64_relaxed
operation, which doesn't provide barrier semantics. If the operation
isn't defined, we simply #define it as the usual 64-bit cmpxchg macro.

Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/lockref.c