Re: [RFC PATCH 28/33] Add Xen grant table support

From: Keir Fraser
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 14:44:06 EST



On 25 Jul 2006, at 19:30, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

I object to these uses of (synch_)cmpxchg on a uint16_t in common code.
Many architectures, including PowerPC, do not support 2-byte atomic
operations, but this code is common to all Xen architectures.

We'll use synch_cmpxchg_subword() in the next iteration of these patches. It's already been applied to our main Xen repository but hadn't been applied to our merge repo when these patches were created.

-- Keir

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