From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stefana@xilinx.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic/bitops: Update stale comment
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:47:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200213104726.GO14897@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200213093927.1836-1-will@kernel.org>
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 09:39:27AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> The comment in 'asm-generic/bitops.h' states that you should "recode
> these in the native assembly language, if at all possible". This is
> pretty crappy advice now that the generic implementation is defined in
> terms of atomic_long_t rather than a spinlock, so update the comment and
> hopefully save future architecture maintainers a bit of work.
>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Reported-by: Stefan Asserhall <stefana@xilinx.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Thanks Will!
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2020-02-13 9:39 Will Deacon
2020-02-13 10:47 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-03-06 10:39 ` [tip: locking/core] " tip-bot2 for Will Deacon
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