On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> wrote:
> Some of the atomics return the result of a test applied after the atomic
> operation, and almost all architectures implement these as trivial
> wrappers around the underlying atomic. Specifically:
>
> * <atomic>_inc_and_test(v) is (<atomic>_inc_return(v) == 0)
>
> * <atomic>_dec_and_test(v) is (<atomic>_dec_return(v) == 0)
>
> * <atomic>_sub_and_test(i, v) is (<atomic>_sub_return(i, v) == 0)
>
> * <atomic>_add_negative(i, v) is (<atomic>_add_return(i, v) < 0)
>
> Rather than have these definitions duplicated in all architectures, with
> minor inconsistencies in formatting and documentation, let's make these
> operations optional, with default fallbacks as above. Implementations
> must now provide a preprocessor symbol.
>
> The instrumented atomics are updated accordingly.
>
> Both x86 and m68k have custom implementations, which are left as-is,
> given preprocessor symbols to avoid being overridden.
>
> There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
> arch/m68k/include/asm/atomic.h | 4 +
For m68k:
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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