[PATCH V2] powerpc: Don't do runtime futex_cmpxchg test

Nicholas Piggin nicholas.piggin at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 09:16:22 AEDT 2018


On 27 Feb. 2018 00:34, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:

futex_detect_cmpxchg() does a cmpxchg_futex_value_locked on a NULL user
addr to
runtime detect whether architecture implements atomic cmpxchg for futex.
POWER
do implement the feature and hence we can enable the config instead of
depending
on runtime detection.

We could possible enable this on everything. For now limitted to book3s_64


I think everything implements it? Might as well do it all at once.

I wouldn't mind putting in an explicit null dereference test if we take
this out.

Thanks,
Nick



Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
index a429d859f15d..31bc2bd5dfd1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ config PPC_BOOK3S_64
        select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
        select IRQ_WORK
        select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ
+       select HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG if FUTEX

 config PPC_BOOK3E_64
        bool "Embedded processors"
--
2.14.3
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