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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-07-11 14:15:48 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2011-07-11 14:15:55 +0200
commitb7e9c223be8ce335e30f2cf6ba588e6a4092275c (patch)
tree2d1e3b75606abc18df7ad65e51ac3f90cd68b38d /include/linux/percpu.h
parentc172d82500a6cf3c32d1e650722a1055d72ce858 (diff)
parente3bbfa78bab125f58b831b5f7f45b5a305091d72 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply pending patches that are based on newer code already present upstream.
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diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index 8b97308e65df..9ca008f0c542 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ extern void __bad_size_call_parameter(void);
* Special handling for cmpxchg_double. cmpxchg_double is passed two
* percpu variables. The first has to be aligned to a double word
* boundary and the second has to follow directly thereafter.
+ * We enforce this on all architectures even if they don't support
+ * a double cmpxchg instruction, since it's a cheap requirement, and it
+ * avoids breaking the requirement for architectures with the instruction.
*/
#define __pcpu_double_call_return_bool(stem, pcp1, pcp2, ...) \
({ \