* Arnd Bergmann (arnd@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Peter Fritzsche wrote: > > 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@xxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> AFAIK that was the last architecture imposing limitations below 32 bits on atomic_t. Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
