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| author | Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> | 2007-10-18 03:06:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-18 14:37:29 -0700 |
| commit | 26333576fd0d0b52f6e4025c5aded97e188bdd44 (patch) | |
| tree | a9c1f9518d940a8ef10453871f2899ca18d46efa /Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | |
| parent | 38048983e14c0fb6324175fbaf2be1baa842f5ee (diff) | |
| download | lwn-26333576fd0d0b52f6e4025c5aded97e188bdd44.tar.gz lwn-26333576fd0d0b52f6e4025c5aded97e188bdd44.zip | |
bitops: introduce lock ops
Introduce test_and_set_bit_lock / clear_bit_unlock bitops with lock semantics.
Convert all architectures to use the generic implementation.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/atomic_ops.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/atomic_ops.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt index d46306fea230..f20c10c2858f 100644 --- a/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt +++ b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt @@ -418,6 +418,20 @@ brothers: */ smp_mb__after_clear_bit(); +There are two special bitops with lock barrier semantics (acquire/release, +same as spinlocks). These operate in the same way as their non-_lock/unlock +postfixed variants, except that they are to provide acquire/release semantics, +respectively. This means they can be used for bit_spin_trylock and +bit_spin_unlock type operations without specifying any more barriers. + + int test_and_set_bit_lock(unsigned long nr, unsigned long *addr); + void clear_bit_unlock(unsigned long nr, unsigned long *addr); + void __clear_bit_unlock(unsigned long nr, unsigned long *addr); + +The __clear_bit_unlock version is non-atomic, however it still implements +unlock barrier semantics. This can be useful if the lock itself is protecting +the other bits in the word. + Finally, there are non-atomic versions of the bitmask operations provided. They are used in contexts where some other higher-level SMP locking scheme is being used to protect the bitmask, and thus less |