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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2011-08-08 14:30:29 +0200
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2011-08-08 14:30:29 +0200
commit0a2d31b62dba9b5b92a38c67c9cc42630513662a (patch)
treef755d74ec85248de645e10c45ed1a2ed467530f6 /include/linux/percpu.h
parent8039290a91c5dc4414093c086987a5d7738fe2fd (diff)
parentdf944f66784e6d4f2f50739263a4947885d8b6ae (diff)
Merge branch 'fix/kconfig' into for-linus
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diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index 8b97308e65d..9ca008f0c54 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, ...) \
({ \