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Andi Kleen da5311258d [PATCH] x86_64: Fix race in cpu_local_* on preemptible kernels
When a process changes CPUs while doing the non atomic cpu_local_*
operations it might operate on the local_t of a different CPUs.

Fix that by disabling preemption.

Pointed out by Christopher Lameter

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 10:48:21 -07:00
Andrew Morton 2cf8d82d63 [PATCH] make local_t signed
local_t's were defined to be unsigned.  This increases confusion because
atomic_t's are signed.  The patch goes through and changes all implementations
to use signed longs throughout.

Also, x86-64 was using 32-bit quantities for the value passed into local_add()
and local_sub().  Fixed.

All (actually, both) existing users have been audited.

(Also s/__inline__/inline/ in x86_64/local.h)

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:55 -08:00
Andi Kleen 9494943619 [PATCH] x86_64: Make local_t 64bit instead of 32bit
For consistency with other architectures

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:14:38 -08:00
Andi Kleen 2ade814736 [PATCH] x86-64: clean up local_add/sub arguments
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:50:59 -07:00
Andi Kleen 1c1734090e [PATCH] x86_64: Correct wrong comment in local.h
local_t is actually a win over atomic_t because it does not need lock
prefixes.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00