Re: [PATCH -v2 00/33] implement atomic_fetch_$op

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jun 08 2016 - 10:38:46 EST


On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 07:54:31PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 June 2016 07:02 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 02:55:30PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >> I'd much prefer to have all of these in the locking tree (i.e. tip:locking/core),
> >> to make it less painful all around.
> >
> > All the fetch_op stuff, yes certainly. But Vineet wanted to munge
> > arch/arc/include/asm/atomic.h a bit in 4.7, which would make applying
> > the arc fetch_op patch tricky.
> >
>
> My patches are in linux-next already. I was hoping to squeeze in a different fix
> before sending the pull request to Linus. But I don't want to stall you, will do
> that first thing tomorrow morning. OK ?

Much thanks!