Re: [PATCH 3.0-stable] sparc32: support atomic64_t

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From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:01:08 -0700

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 05:53:08PM +0200, Andreas Larsson wrote:
>> Commit aea1181b0bd0a09c54546399768f359d1e198e45 upstream
>> 
>> [Backport to 3.0.y. Needed to compile ext4 for sparc32 since commit
>> 503f4bdcc078e7abee273a85ce322de81b18a224]
>> 
>> There is no-one that really require atomic64_t support on sparc32.
>> But several drivers fails to build without proper atomic64 support.
>> And for an allyesconfig build for sparc32 this is annoying.
>> 
>> Include the generic atomic64_t support for sparc32.
>> This has a text footprint cost:
>> 
>> $size vmlinux (before atomic64_t support)
>>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> 3578860  134260  108781 3821901  3a514d vmlinux
>> 
>> $size vmlinux (after atomic64_t support)
>>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> 3579892  130684  108781 3819357  3a475d vmlinux
>> 
>> text increase (3579892 - 3578860) = 1032 bytes
>> 
>> data decreases - but I fail to explain why!
>> I have rebuild twice to check my numbers.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> 
>> If this is an incorrect way to submit a backport of someone elses patch
>> to stable, please let me know. The Signed-off-by from Sam and David are
>> for the upstream patch.
> 
> I need an ack from David before I can take this, as he normally sends
> the sparc stable patches to me.

I'm fine with this going into -stable:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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