Re: [PATCH v3] arm: remove !CPU_V6 and !GENERIC_ATOMIC64 builddependencies for XEN

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Jan 16 2014 - 14:36:15 EST


Hi Stefano,

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 04:27:55PM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Ok, thanks for the explanation. Looking at the patch, I wonder whether it's
> > not cleaner just to implement xchg code separately for Xen? The Linux code
> > isn't always sufficient (due to the GENERIC_ATOMIC64 stuff) and most of the
> > churn coming out of this patch is an attempt to provide some small code
> > reuse at the cost of code readability.
> >
> > What do others think?
>
> I am OK with that, in fact my first version of the patch did just that:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=138436406724990&w=2
>
> Is that what you had in mind?

For the xchg part, yes, that looks a lot better. I don't like the #undef
CONFIG_CPU_V6 though, can that be rewritten to use __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__?

Will
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