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      Make workqueue bit operations work on "atomic_long_t" · a08727ba
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      On architectures where the atomicity of the bit operations is handled by
      external means (ie a separate spinlock to protect concurrent accesses),
      just doing a direct assignment on the workqueue data field (as done by
      commit 4594bf15) can cause the
      assignment to be lost due to lack of serialization with the bitops on
      the same word.
      
      So we need to serialize the assignment with the locks on those
      architectures (notably older ARM chips, PA-RISC and sparc32).
      
      So rather than using an "unsigned long", let's use "atomic_long_t",
      which already has a safe assignment operation (atomic_long_set()) on
      such architectures.
      
      This requires that the atomic operations use the same atomicity locks as
      the bit operations do, but that is largely the case anyway.  Sparc32
      will probably need fixing.
      
      Architectures (including modern ARM with LL/SC) that implement sane
      atomic operations for SMP won't see any of this matter.
      
      Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.com>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
      Cc: Linux Arch Maintainers <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      a08727ba
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