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    x86: clean up rwsem type system · 5d0b7235
    Linus Torvalds authored
    The fast version of the rwsems (the code that uses xadd) has
    traditionally only worked on x86-32, and as a result it mixes different
    kinds of types wildly - they just all happen to be 32-bit.  We have
    "long", we have "__s32", and we have "int".
    
    To make it work on x86-64, the types suddenly matter a lot more.  It can
    be either a 32-bit or 64-bit signed type, and both work (with the caveat
    that a 32-bit counter will only have 15 bits of effective write
    counters, so it's limited to 32767 users).  But whatever type you
    choose, it needs to be used consistently.
    
    This makes a new 'rwsem_counter_t', that is a 32-bit signed type.  For a
    64-bit type, you'd need to also update the BIAS values.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001121755220.17145@localhost.localdomain>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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