linux/arch/powerpc
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 529b7307d8 powerpc: Make rwsem use "long" type
This makes the 64-bit kernel use 64-bit signed integers for the counter
(effectively supporting 32-bit of active count in the semaphore), thus
avoiding things like overflow of the mmap_sem if you use a really crazy
number of threads

Note: Ideally the type in the structure should be atomic_long_t rather
than "long". However, there's some nasty issues with that. It needs to
be initialized statically -and- lib/rwsem.c does things like

        sem->count = RWSEM_UNLOCKED_VALUE;

Now, if you mix in the fact that atomic_* types are actually structures
with one member and note typedefs of a scalar, it makes its really nasty.

So I stuck to what we did before using a long and casts for now.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-08-24 14:41:48 +10:00
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boot Merge remote branch 'jwb/merge' into merge 2010-08-24 14:36:45 +10:00
configs powerpc: Trim defconfigs 2010-08-09 11:19:16 +10:00
include/asm powerpc: Make rwsem use "long" type 2010-08-24 14:41:48 +10:00
kernel Merge remote branch 'jwb/merge' into merge 2010-08-24 14:36:45 +10:00
kvm Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2010-08-05 09:03:46 -07:00
lib Merge commit 'paulus-perf/master' into next 2010-07-09 11:25:48 +10:00
math-emu
mm Merge remote branch 'jwb/merge' into merge 2010-08-24 14:36:45 +10:00
oprofile powerpc/oprofile: Don't build server oprofile drivers on 64-bit BookE 2010-07-14 14:13:54 +10:00
platforms Merge branch 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2010-08-12 09:11:31 -07:00
sysdev Merge branch 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2010-08-12 09:11:31 -07:00
xmon powerpc/book3e: Add TLB dump in xmon for Book3E 2010-07-14 14:13:52 +10:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'timers-timekeeping-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-08-06 13:18:29 -07:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc: Unconditionally enabled irq stacks 2010-06-15 15:02:37 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: fix build with make 3.82 2010-08-09 14:14:05 +10:00
relocs_check.pl powerpc: Check for unsupported relocs when using CONFIG_RELOCATABLE 2009-09-24 15:31:40 +10:00