On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch implements a dummy implementation for asm-generic, falling
> back to the usual cmpxchg64 code.
I don't like the "let's add dummy operations for everybody who doesn't
care" when it is this specialized.
I'd much rather just add a single
#ifndef cmpxchg64_relaxed
# define cmpxchg64_relaxed cmpxchg64
#endif
to the LOCKREF code, and then ARM (and others) can define it as they wish.
And *if* anybody else ever realizes that they want this outside of the
lockref code, let's look at doing that then. Right now I don't know of
any users, and I'd be leery of people using this willy-nilly, because
very few people really understand memory ordering.
Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
