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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 3/5] asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h: Rewrite using atomic_fetch_*
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 06:20:49PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:

> > The only other comment is that I think it would be better if you use
> > atomic_t instead of atomic_long_t. It would just mean changing
> > BIT_WORD() and BIT_MASK().
>
> It would make it pretty messy for big-endian architectures, I think...

Urgh, the big.little indians strike again.. Bah I always forget about
that.

#define BIT_U32_MASK(nr) (1UL << ((nr) % 32))
#define BIT_U32_WORD(nr) (((nr) / 32) ^ (4 * __BIG_ENDIAN__))

Or something like that might work, but I always get these things wrong.

> > The reason is that we generate a pretty sane set of atomic_t primitives
> > as long as the architecture supplies cmpxchg, but atomic64 defaults to
> > utter crap, even on 64bit platforms.
>
> I think all the architectures using this today are 32-bit:
>
> blackfin
> c6x
> cris
> metag
> openrisc
> sh
> xtensa
>
> and I don't know how much we should care about optimising the generic atomic
> bitops for 64-bit architectures that rely on spinlocks for 64-bit atomics!

You're probably right, but it just bugs me that we default to such
horrible crap. Arguably we should do a better default for atomic64_t on
64bit archs. But that's for another time.

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