RE: Bug in atomic_sub_if_positive

["Morten Larsen" <mlarsen@broadcom.com>]

> As far as I can tell the branch optimization fixes in 2.6.21 introduced
> a bug in atomic_sub_if_positive that causes it to return even when the
> sc instruction fails. The result is that e.g. down_trylock becomes
> unreliable as the semaphore counter is not always decremented.

Previous patch was garbled by Outlook - this one should be clean:

--- a/include/asm-mips/atomic.h 2008-06-25 22:38:43.159739000 -0700
+++ b/include/asm-mips/atomic.h 2008-06-25 22:39:07.552065000 -0700
@@ -292,10 +292,10 @@ static __inline__ int atomic_sub_if_posi
                "       beqz    %0, 2f                                  \n"
                "        subu   %0, %1, %3                              \n"
                "       .set    reorder                                 \n"
-               "1:                                                     \n"
                "       .subsection 2                                   \n"
                "2:     b       1b                                      \n"
                "       .previous                                       \n"
+               "1:                                                     \n"
                "       .set    mips0                                   \n"
                : "=&r" (result), "=&r" (temp), "=m" (v->counter)
                : "Ir" (i), "m" (v->counter)
@@ -682,10 +682,10 @@ static __inline__ long atomic64_sub_if_p
                "       beqz    %0, 2f                                  \n"
                "        dsubu  %0, %1, %3                              \n"
                "       .set    reorder                                 \n"
-               "1:                                                     \n"
                "       .subsection 2                                   \n"
                "2:     b       1b                                      \n"
                "       .previous                                       \n"
+               "1:                                                     \n"
                "       .set    mips0                                   \n"
                : "=&r" (result), "=&r" (temp), "=m" (v->counter)
                : "Ir" (i), "m" (v->counter)