Re: [PATCH 2/2] um: Disable CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Apr 13 2011 - 08:56:31 EST


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit 8a5ec0ba "Lockless (and preemptless) fastpaths for slub"
> makes use of this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() which needs
> this_cpu_cmpxchg16b_emu() on x86_64.
> Implementing cmpxchg16b emulation for UML would introduce
> too much complexity. So just disable it.
>
> LKML-Reference: <20110412192014.GF16342@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyich@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
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