Re: [PATCHv3 00/18] atomics: API cleanups

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Jun 18 2018 - 12:37:38 EST


On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:19:01AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This series contains a few cleanups of the atomic API, fixing
> inconsistencies between atomic_* and atomic64_*, and minimizing
> repetition in arch code. This is nicer for arch code, and the improved
> regularity will help when generating the atomic headers in future.

Apart from the Alpha patch:

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>

I also tried to compare disassembly before/after, but the changes to
add_unless made that quite fiddly for anything using it as a backend.

Do you plan to move arm64 over to atomic-instrumented.h at some point?

Will