From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932411AbVIZGjh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:39:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932412AbVIZGjh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:39:37 -0400 Received: from smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.116]:20873 "HELO smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932411AbVIZGjh (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 02:39:37 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=SpWtq1fjkbgb2L0Zr1Ef/fe/icsjptuYgeop14pAiKsU00yx6RTAY2TIxgw6HfVZLW4+R2nDNXoFhIYABoZK5xlUs6iAVVMNphBOX7FHPlznXnycvefE6uceQrsOPavonUe7lvx4hphCToY4UfkyMn1GlcYLNwTWkw3oEdU+rWo= ; Subject: Re: [PATCH] RT: Checks for cmpxchg in get_task_struct_rcu() From: Nick Piggin To: Ingo Molnar Cc: dwalker@mvista.com, lkml In-Reply-To: <20050926062631.GE3273@elte.hu> References: <1127345874.19506.43.camel@dhcp153.mvista.com> <433201FC.8040004@yahoo.com.au> <20050926062631.GE3273@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:39:13 +1000 Message-Id: <1127716753.5101.25.camel@npiggin-nld.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 08:26 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Nick Piggin wrote: > > > You need my atomic_cmpxchg patches that provide an atomic_cmpxchg (and > > atomic_inc_not_zero) for all architectures. > > yeah. When will they be merged upstream? > Well they're in -mm now, you can put them in your RT tree until they're in mainline... I guess realistically, 2.6.15. They should blow up fairly quickly if there are any problems with them, but they simply need a bit of testing on all architectures which I cannot do and I suspect even -mm isn't tested on at least half of them. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com