x86: clean up rwsem type system
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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001121755220.17145@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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