On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Zachary Amsden wrote: > It needn't be all architectures yet - only architectures that want to compile > Xen drivers are really affected. Perhaps a better place for these locking > primitives is in a Xen-specific driver header which defines appropriate > primitives for the architectures required? Last I remember, there were still > some issues here where atomic partial word operations couldn't be supported on > some architectures. Good idea. This will also make it easier to support this special functionality. And it will avoid use in contexts where these are not necessary.
