Re: [PATCH 1/6] locking/atomic, asm-generic: instrument ordering variants

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 07:09:09PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 08:01:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 06:39:32PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:

> > >  include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h | 1195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > >  1 file changed, 1008 insertions(+), 187 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Is there really no way to either generate or further macro compress this?
> 
> I can definitely macro compress this somewhat, but the bulk of the
> repetition will be the ifdeffery, which can't be macro'd away IIUC.

Right, much like what we already have in linux/atomic.h I suspect,
having to duplicating that isn't brilliant either.

> Generating this with a script is possible -- do we do anything like that
> elsewhere?

There's include/generated/ in your build directory. But nothing on this
scale I think.