Re: [PATCH 5/6] sh: Emulate two-byte cmpxchg

[Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>]

On 16 September 2026 22:01:07 BST, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 09:16:16PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Hi Bradley,
>> 
>> On Fri, 2026-09-11 at 19:25 +0000, Bradley Morgan wrote:
>> > SH has no byte or halfword atomic memory operations, so the
>> > __cmpxchg() switch routes case 1 through cmpxchg_emu_u8() and
>> > lets case 2 fall through to __cmpxchg_called_with_bad_pointer(),
>> > which is declared but never defined, so a two-byte cmpxchg()
>> > fails at link time. Route case 2 through the new cmpxchg_emu_u16().
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org>
>> > ---
>> >  arch/sh/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 2 ++
>> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
>b/arch/sh/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
>> > index 1e5dc5ccf7bf..477d3025a441 100644
>> > --- a/arch/sh/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
>> > +++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
>> > @@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg(volatile void
>* ptr, unsigned long old,
>> >  	switch (size) {
>> >  	case 1:
>> >  		return cmpxchg_emu_u8(ptr, old, new);
>> > +	case 2:
>> > +		return cmpxchg_emu_u16(ptr, old, new);
>> >  	case 4:
>> >  		return __cmpxchg_u32(ptr, old, new);
>> >  	}
>> 
>> Odd, I thought this series was merged long time ago. Was there anything
>holding it back?
>
>You might be thinking of the cmpxchg_emu_u8() series from a few years
>back.
>This is cmpxchg_emu_u16().
>
>							Thanx, Paul
>
>> Either way:
>> 
>> Acked-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
>> 
>> Adrian
>> 
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I think he was referring to when you tried u16 that time.
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