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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h index 4f37dbbb8640..f35109b1d907 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h +++ b/arch/ia64/include/uapi/asm/cmpxchg.h @@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ extern long ia64_cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer(void); #define cmpxchg_rel(ptr, o, n) \ ia64_cmpxchg(rel, (ptr), (o), (n), sizeof(*(ptr))) +/* + * Worse still - early processor implementations actually just ignored + * the acquire/release and did a full fence all the time. Unfortunately + * this meant a lot of badly written code that used .acq when they really + * wanted .rel became legacy out in the wild - so when we made a cpu + * that strictly did the .acq or .rel ... all that code started breaking - so + * we had to back-pedal and keep the "legacy" behavior of a full fence :-( + */ + /* for compatibility with other platforms: */ #define cmpxchg(ptr, o, n) cmpxchg_acq((ptr), (o), (n)) #define cmpxchg64(ptr, o, n) cmpxchg_acq((ptr), (o), (n)) |
