Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/1] arch: arm64: Implement unaligned atomic emulation

[André Almeida]

Em 29/09/2026 23:01, André Almeida escreveu:
> Implement support for emulating unaligned atomic operations on arm64.
> User applications that wish to enable support for this should use the
> pctrl() flag `PR_ARM64_UNALIGN_ATOMIC_EMULATE`.
As discussed at LPC 2026[1], the split lock emulation is probably the 
first thing that we want to figure from the atomics issues, given that 
is the trickiest one to emulate correctly given the need serialize two 
atomic instructions. As suggested by Mark, first we are going to work on 
an userspace solution that delivers correctness and from there we can 
better understand what the kernel could provide to help with performance 
improvements.

Thanks!
	André

[1] https://lpc.events/event/20/contributions/2594/