[PATCH 3/5] arm: use the spinlocked, generic atomic64 support

Jamie Iles jamie.iles at picochip.com
Tue Dec 15 06:15:10 EST 2009


perf events require that we can support atomic64's. There is a generic,
spinlocked version that we can use until we have proper hardware
support.

Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles at picochip.com>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig              |    1 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 233a222..9580418 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ config ARM
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES if (HAVE_KPROBES)
 	select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if (!XIP_KERNEL)
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT
+	select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
 	help
 	  The ARM series is a line of low-power-consumption RISC chip designs
 	  licensed by ARM Ltd and targeted at embedded applications and
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
index d0daeab..ff286a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/atomic.h
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64
+#include <asm-generic/atomic64.h>
+#endif
+
 #define ATOMIC_INIT(i)	{ (i) }
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
-- 
1.6.5.4




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