From 84567995612258c23bc55795575babe7ef605dd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boqun Feng Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 19:52:46 +0800 Subject: locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h After commit: 654672d4ba1a ("locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}() variants of some atomic operations") Architectures may only provide {cmp,}xchg_relaxed definitions in asm/cmpxchg.h. Other variants, such as {cmp,}xchg, may be built in linux/atomic.h, which means simply including asm/cmpxchg.h may not get the definitions of all the{cmp,}xchg variants. Therefore, we should privatize the inclusions of asm/cmpxchg.h to keep it only included in arch/* and replace the inclusions outside with linux/atomic.h Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Will Deacon Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Aybuke Ozdemir Cc: Chris Brannon Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kirk Reiser Cc: Kishon Vijay Abraham I Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Samuel Thibault Cc: Shradha Shah Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: William Hubbs Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Cc: linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com Cc: speakup@linux-speakup.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440589966-26280-1-git-send-email-boqun.feng@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/atomic_ops.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt index b19fc34efdb1..c9d1cacb4395 100644 --- a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt +++ b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt @@ -542,6 +542,10 @@ The routines xchg() and cmpxchg() must provide the same exact memory-barrier semantics as the atomic and bit operations returning values. +Note: If someone wants to use xchg(), cmpxchg() and their variants, +linux/atomic.h should be included rather than asm/cmpxchg.h, unless +the code is in arch/* and can take care of itself. + Spinlocks and rwlocks have memory barrier expectations as well. The rule to follow is simple: -- cgit v1.2.1