Re: [PATCH] m68k: add generic atomic64_t support

[Greg Ungerer]

Hi Geert,

On 13/08/12 00:47, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Fengguang,
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This fixes build errors like:
> >
> > fs/namespace.c:2290:1: error: unknown type name 'atomic64_t'
> > fs/namespace.c:2290:1: error: implicit declaration of function 'ATOMIC64_INIT' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> > fs/namespace.c:2290:1: error: initializer element is not constant
> > fs/namespace.c: In function 'alloc_mnt_ns':
> > fs/namespace.c:2299:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'atomic64_add_return' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>
> > Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   arch/m68k/Kconfig |    1 +
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > --- linux.orig/arch/m68k/Kconfig        2012-08-12 21:15:49.730533572 +0800
> > +++ linux/arch/m68k/Kconfig     2012-08-12 22:19:56.202624988 +0800
> > @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ config M68K
> >          select FPU if MMU
> >          select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
> >          select ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET if MMU && !COLDFIRE
> > +       select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
>
> For several CPU types (68020/68030/68040/68080), this is already selected in
> arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu
> So probably this select should be moved to cover more CPU types?

I think we need CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMC64 for all the other types too.
Is there any reason we can't remove all these CPU defined ones and
have a single select for m68k?

Tested and verified on a variety of ColdFire targets if I do that.

Regards
Greg



> For which config do you get this build error? I can't seem to trigger it in
> current mainline nor -next with m5475evb_defconfig.
> Does it depend on additional patches to introduce more atomic64 uses?
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                          Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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>                                  -- Linus Torvalds


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