On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 03:07:09 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> In commit d0563a1297e2 ("powerpc: Implement {cmp}xchg for u8 and u16")
> we removed the volatile from __cmpxchg().
>
> This is leading to warnings such as:
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_lock.c: In function âdrm_lock_takeâ:
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:484:37: warning: passing argument 1
> of â__cmpxchgâ discards âvolatileâ qualifier from pointer target
> (__typeof__(*(ptr))) __cmpxchg((ptr), (unsigned long)_o_, \
>
> There doesn't seem to be consensus across architectures whether the
> argument is volatile or not, so at least for now put the volatile back.
>
> Fixes: d0563a1297e2 ("powerpc: Implement {cmp}xchg for u8 and u16")
> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Applied to powerpc next.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/da58b23cb976ab83a80d358102e139
cheers
