Re: [PATCH 0/2] locking/atomics: fix and improvement

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Wed Dec 12 2018 - 05:18:29 EST


On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 05:50:33PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> I hope that these atomic scripting patches address your concerns with
> the atomics scripting infrastructure. These are based on the tip
> locking/core branch, leaving the headers checked-in.
>
> The primary improvement is using a hash to detect when the headers have
> been erroneously modified, meaning check-atomics.sh takes ~0.15s, which
> I believe should be palatable.

As a heads-up, it looks like my prior attempt [1] is in today's linux-next
(next-20181212), via Andrew's tree.

Ingo, could you please let us know what you'd prefer? Are you happy to take
this version, and should Andrew drop that patch?

Thanks,
Mark.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181128085455.1164-1-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx