This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled locking/x86: Remove the unused atomic_inc_short() methd to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: locking-x86-remove-the-unused-atomic_inc_short-methd.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 31b35f6b4d5285a311e10753f4eb17304326b211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 19:29:00 +0200 Subject: locking/x86: Remove the unused atomic_inc_short() methd From: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 31b35f6b4d5285a311e10753f4eb17304326b211 upstream. It is completely unused and implemented only on x86. Remove it. Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526172900.91058-1-dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/tile/lib/atomic_asm_32.S | 3 +-- arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h | 13 ------------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 deletions(-) --- a/arch/tile/lib/atomic_asm_32.S +++ b/arch/tile/lib/atomic_asm_32.S @@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ * has an opportunity to return -EFAULT to the user if needed. * The 64-bit routines just return a "long long" with the value, * since they are only used from kernel space and don't expect to fault. - * Support for 16-bit ops is included in the framework but we don't provide - * any (x86_64 has an atomic_inc_short(), so we might want to some day). + * Support for 16-bit ops is included in the framework but we don't provide any. * * Note that the caller is advised to issue a suitable L1 or L2 * prefetch on the address being manipulated to avoid extra stalls. --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h @@ -249,19 +249,6 @@ static __always_inline int __atomic_add_ return c; } -/** - * atomic_inc_short - increment of a short integer - * @v: pointer to type int - * - * Atomically adds 1 to @v - * Returns the new value of @u - */ -static __always_inline short int atomic_inc_short(short int *v) -{ - asm(LOCK_PREFIX "addw $1, %0" : "+m" (*v)); - return *v; -} - #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 # include <asm/atomic64_32.h> #else Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/locking-x86-remove-the-unused-atomic_inc_short-methd.patch queue-4.9/taskstats-fix-data-race.patch