Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: Don't warn that atomic_t is only 24 bit | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:33:29 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > 32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of 24-bit of it's atomic_t type. > This was corrected with linux 2.6.3 when Keith M Wesolowski changed the > implementation to use the parisc approach of having an array of > spinlocks to protect the atomic_t. > > These warnings were also removed from the sparc implementation when the > new implementation was merged in BKrev:402e4949VThdc6D3iaosSFUgabMfvw, > but the warning still remained in some other places without any > 24-bit-only atomic_t implementation inside the kernel. > > We should remove these warnings to allow users to rely on the full > 32-bit range of atomic_t. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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