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    lockref: allow relaxed cmpxchg64 variant for lockless updates · d2212b4d
    Will Deacon authored
    
    
    The 64-bit cmpxchg operation on the lockref is ordered by virtue of
    hazarding between the cmpxchg operation and the reference count
    manipulation. On weakly ordered memory architectures (such as ARM), it
    can be of great benefit to omit the barrier instructions where they are
    not needed.
    
    This patch moves the lockless lockref code over to a cmpxchg64_relaxed
    operation, which doesn't provide barrier semantics. If the operation
    isn't defined, we simply #define it as the usual 64-bit cmpxchg macro.
    
    Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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