x86: atomic64: Improve cmpxchg8b()
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:26:41 +0000 (13:26 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:26:41 +0000 (13:26 +0200)
commit69237f94e65d3d7f539f1adb98ef68685c595004
treebe7f8e2b323206bc10f82ca5a70ed5cf646c4fb9
parentaacf682fd8c66b57383c407eecd9d4a28264ee91
x86: atomic64: Improve cmpxchg8b()

Rewrite cmpxchg8b() to not use %edi register but a generic "+m"
constraint, to increase compiler freedom in code generation and
possibly better code.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c