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Hitoshi Mitake 797a796a13 asm-generic: architecture independent readq/writeq for 32bit environment 
This provides unified readq()/writeq() helper functions for 32-bit
drivers.

For some cases, readq/writeq without atomicity is harmful, and order of
io access has to be specified explicitly.  So in this patch, new two
header files which contain non-atomic readq/writeq are added.

 - <asm-generic/io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h> provides non-atomic readq/
   writeq with the order of lower address -> higher address

 - <asm-generic/io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h> provides non-atomic readq/
   writeq with reversed order

This allows us to remove some readq()s that were added drivers when the
default non-atomic ones were removed in commit dbee8a0aff ("x86:
remove 32-bit versions of readq()/writeq()")

The drivers which need readq/writeq but can do with the non-atomic ones
must add the line:

  #include <asm-generic/io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h> /* or hi-lo.h */

But this will be nop in 64-bit environments, and no other #ifdefs are
required.  So I believe that this patch can solve the problem of
 1. driver-specific readq/writeq
 2. atomicity and order of io access

This patch is tested with building allyesconfig and allmodconfig as
ARCH=x86 and ARCH=i386 on top of tip/master.

Cc: Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Anand <ravi.anand@qlogic.com>
Cc: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
History 2012-02-21 16:47:28 -08:00
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x86 asm-generic: architecture independent readq/writeq for 32bit environment 2012-02-21 16:47:28 -08:00
Kconfig Kconfig: Remove useless and sometimes wrong comments 2009-11-09 09:40:56 +01:00
Makefile create drivers/platform/x86/ from drivers/misc/ 2008-12-19 04:42:32 -05:00