From 3824abd1279ef75f791c43a6b1e3162ae0692b42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:25:47 -0500 Subject: x86: Add support for cmpxchg_double A simple implementation that only supports the word size and does not have a fallback mode (would require a spinlock). Add 32 and 64 bit support for cmpxchg_double. cmpxchg double uses the cmpxchg8b or cmpxchg16b instruction on x86 processors to compare and swap 2 machine words. This allows lockless algorithms to move more context information through critical sections. Set a flag CONFIG_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE to signal that support for double word cmpxchg detection has been build into the kernel. Note that each subsystem using cmpxchg_double has to implement a fall back mechanism as long as we offer support for processors that do not implement cmpxchg_double. Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601172614.173427964@linux.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h index 71cc3800712c..d1053cd6f896 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h @@ -288,6 +288,8 @@ extern const char * const x86_power_flags[32]; #define cpu_has_hypervisor boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) #define cpu_has_pclmulqdq boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PCLMULQDQ) #define cpu_has_perfctr_core boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PERFCTR_CORE) +#define cpu_has_cx8 boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CX8) +#define cpu_has_cx16 boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_CX16) #if defined(CONFIG_X86_INVLPG) || defined(CONFIG_X86_64) # define cpu_has_invlpg 1 -- cgit