[PATCH] SLUB Use cmpxchg() everywhere

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 13:43:50 EST


SLUB Use cmpxchg() everywhere.

It applies to "SLUB: Single atomic instruction alloc/free using
cmpxchg".

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/slub.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: slab/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- slab.orig/mm/slub.c 2007-08-20 18:42:16.000000000 -0400
+++ slab/mm/slub.c 2007-08-20 18:42:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@ redo:

object[c->offset] = freelist;

- if (unlikely(cmpxchg_local(&c->freelist, freelist, object) != freelist))
+ if (unlikely(cmpxchg(&c->freelist, freelist, object) != freelist))
goto redo;
return;
slow:
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68
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