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    x86: Provide an alternative() based cmpxchg64() · 79e1dd05
    Arjan van de Ven authored
    
    
    cmpxchg64() today generates, to quote Linus, "barf bag" code.
    
    cmpxchg64() is about to get used in the scheduler to fix a bug there,
    but it's a prerequisite that cmpxchg64() first be made non-sucking.
    
    This patch turns cmpxchg64() into an efficient implementation that
    uses the alternative() mechanism to just use the raw instruction on
    all modern systems.
    
    Note: the fallback is NOT smp safe, just like the current fallback
    is not SMP safe. (Interested parties with i486 based SMP systems
    are welcome to submit fix patches for that.)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    [ fixed asm constraint bug ]
    Fixed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    LKML-Reference: <20090930170754.0886ff2e@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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