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Arnd reports that on 32-bit architectures, the fallbacks for
atomic64_read_acquire() and atomic64_set_release() are broken as they
use smp_load_acquire() and smp_store_release() respectively, which do
not work on types larger than the native word size.

Since those contain compiletime_assert_atomic_type(), any attempt to use
those fallbacks will result in a build-time error. e.g. with the
following added to arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:

| void test_atomic64(atomic64_t *v)
| {
|        atomic64_set_release(v, 5);
|        atomic64_read_acquire(v);
| }

The compiler will complain as follows:

| In file included from <command-line>:
| In function 'arch_atomic64_set_release',
|     inlined from 'test_atomic64' at ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:669:2:
| ././include/linux/compiler_types.h:346:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_9' declared with attribute error: Need native word sized stores/loads for atomicity.
|   346 |  _compiletime_ass...