Re: [PATCH v2] mm/slub: Genericize x86-specific cmpxchg16b comment

From: Alexei Starovoitov

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 13:30:28 EST


On Sun, Nov 08, 2026 at 07:59 PM Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> atomic primitive is satisfied by different hardware implementations:
> (1) arm64: satisfies it via LSE atomics ('casp' instruction)
[...]
> Update the comment to "double-width atomic cmpxchg", which provides the
> following advantages:
> (1) Accurately describes the cross-platform hardware invariant.

You ignored Hao's point about shorter commit logs.

I dropped all of your pending patches.

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