On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 06:25:25PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > I'm almost inclined to just exclude parisc from using opt spinning. > > That said, this patch still doesn't address the far more interesting > problem of actually finding these issues for these few weird archs. So why do these archs provide xchg() and cmpxchg() at all? Wouldn't it be much simpler if archs that cannot sanely do this, not provide these primitives at all? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html