Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:46:52 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <20100428.094652.22534047.davem@davemloft.net>
To: peter.fritzsche@gmx.de
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
       linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       wesolows@foobazco.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: Don't warn that atomic_t is only 24
 bit
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:10:36 +0200

> 32-bit Sparc used to only allow usage of 24-bit of it's atomic_t type.
> This was corrected with linux 2.6.3 when Keith M Wesolowski changed the
> implementation to use the parisc approach of having an array of
> spinlocks to protect the atomic_t.
> 
> These warnings were also removed from the sparc implementation when the
> new implementation was merged in BKrev:402e4949VThdc6D3iaosSFUgabMfvw,
> but the warning still remained in some other places without any
> 24-bit-only atomic_t implementation inside the kernel.
> 
> We should remove these warnings to allow users to rely on the full
> 32-bit range of atomic_t.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Fritzsche <peter.fritzsche@gmx.de>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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