bitops: drop volatile qualifier

Qualifier 'volatile' is not useful for applications, it's too strict
for single threaded code but does not give the real atomicity guarantees
needed for multithreaded code.

Drop them and now useless casts.

Signed-off-by: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>

diff --git a/bitops.h b/bitops.h
index c45623245f31c0cb29f95e8253723d715dc8b077..74e14e57247e1bef75a68227e25d4f9550ab313e 100644 (file)
--- a/bitops.h
+++ b/bitops.h
@@ -114,10 +114,10 @@ static inline unsigned long ffz(unsigned long word)
  * @nr: the bit to set
  * @addr: the address to start counting from
  */
-static inline void set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
+static inline void set_bit(int nr, unsigned long *addr)
 {
        unsigned long mask = BIT_MASK(nr);
-       unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *)addr) + BIT_WORD(nr);
+        unsigned long *p = addr + BIT_WORD(nr);
 
        *p  |= mask;
 }
@@ -127,10 +127,10 @@ static inline void set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
  * @nr: Bit to clear
  * @addr: Address to start counting from
  */
-static inline void clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
+static inline void clear_bit(int nr, unsigned long *addr)
 {
        unsigned long mask = BIT_MASK(nr);
-       unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *)addr) + BIT_WORD(nr);
+        unsigned long *p = addr + BIT_WORD(nr);
 
        *p &= ~mask;
 }
@@ -140,10 +140,10 @@ static inline void clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
  * @nr: Bit to change
  * @addr: Address to start counting from
  */
-static inline void change_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
+static inline void change_bit(int nr, unsigned long *addr)
 {
        unsigned long mask = BIT_MASK(nr);
-       unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *)addr) + BIT_WORD(nr);
+        unsigned long *p = addr + BIT_WORD(nr);
 
        *p ^= mask;
 }
@@ -153,10 +153,10 @@ static inline void change_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
  * @nr: Bit to set
  * @addr: Address to count from
  */
-static inline int test_and_set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
+static inline int test_and_set_bit(int nr, unsigned long *addr)
 {
        unsigned long mask = BIT_MASK(nr);
-       unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *)addr) + BIT_WORD(nr);
+        unsigned long *p = addr + BIT_WORD(nr);
        unsigned long old = *p;
 
        *p = old | mask;
@@ -168,10 +168,10 @@ static inline int test_and_set_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
  * @nr: Bit to clear
  * @addr: Address to count from
  */
-static inline int test_and_clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
+static inline int test_and_clear_bit(int nr, unsigned long *addr)
 {
        unsigned long mask = BIT_MASK(nr);
-       unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *)addr) + BIT_WORD(nr);
+        unsigned long *p = addr + BIT_WORD(nr);
        unsigned long old = *p;
 
        *p = old & ~mask;
@@ -183,10 +183,10 @@ static inline int test_and_clear_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
  * @nr: Bit to change
  * @addr: Address to count from
  */
-static inline int test_and_change_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
+static inline int test_and_change_bit(int nr, unsigned long *addr)
 {
        unsigned long mask = BIT_MASK(nr);
-       unsigned long *p = ((unsigned long *)addr) + BIT_WORD(nr);
+        unsigned long *p = addr + BIT_WORD(nr);
        unsigned long old = *p;
 
        *p = old ^ mask;
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static inline int test_and_change_bit(int nr, volatile unsigned long *addr)
  * @nr: bit number to test
  * @addr: Address to start counting from
  */
-static inline int test_bit(int nr, const volatile unsigned long *addr)
+static inline int test_bit(int nr, const unsigned long *addr)
 {
        return 1UL & (addr[BIT_WORD(nr)] >> (nr & (BITS_PER_LONG-1)));
 }