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atomic64_add_unless must return 1 if it perfomed the add and 0 otherwise.
The generic implementation did the opposite thing.
Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Confirmed-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Luca Barbieri <luca@luca-barbieri.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267469749-11878-4-git-send-email-luca@luca-barbieri.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

The generic atomic64_t implementation in lib/ did not export the functions
it defined, which means that modules that use atomic64_t would not link on
platforms (such as 32-bit powerpc).  For example, trying to build a kernel
with CONFIG_NET_RDS on such a platform would fail with:

    ERROR: "atomic64_read" [net/rds/rds.ko] undefined!
    ERROR: "atomic64_set" [net/rds/rds.ko] undefined!

Fix this by exporting the atomic64_t functions to modules.  (I export the
entire API even if it's not all currently used by in-tree modules to avoid
having to continue fixing this in dribs and drabs)
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Many processor architectures have no 64-bit atomic instructions, but
we need atomic64_t in order to support the perf_counter subsystem.

This adds an implementation of 64-bit atomic operations using hashed
spinlocks to provide atomicity.  For each atomic operation, the address
of the atomic64_t variable is hashed to an index into an array of 16
spinlocks.  That spinlock is taken (with interrupts disabled) around the
operation, which can then be coded non-atomically within the lock.

On UP, all the spinlock manipulation goes away and we simply disable
interrupts around each operation.  In fact gcc eliminates the whole
atomic64_lock variable as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>