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Re: [PATCH, ARM] Atomic builtins using kernel helpers for Linux/EABI
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Julian Brown <julian at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:01:16 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, ARM] Atomic builtins using kernel helpers for Linux/EABI
- References: <20080701174632.0b53565a@boris.athome> <200811271640.24125.paul@codesourcery.com> <492EEBA7.9020204@redhat.com> <49358D99.5070606@codesourcery.com> <20090122145722.73e647f9@rex.config>
Julian Brown wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:33:45 -0800
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Paul Brook wrote:
>>>> [http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-07/msg00025.html]
>>>>> gcc/
>>>>> * config/arm/t-linux-eabi (LIB2FUNCS_STATIC_EXTRA): Add
>>>>> config/arm/linux-atomic.c.
>>>>> * config/arm/linux-atomic.c: New.
>>>> Ok.
>>> Ta for looking. What's the status of this now? Will it
>>> be committed in 4.4 (since it was posted in July) or will it
>>> be held back?
>> That's at the discretion of the ARM maintainers (Paul et al.). If
>> they feel it's sufficiently safe, it's OK to put it in now.
>
> Apologies, I've let this patch slip horribly. For avoidance of doubt,
> do we (still?) want this on 4.4, or should I hold off until 4.5 now?
Since it's additional code, so nothing depends on it, and there were no
implementations of these routines before now, I suspect there is little
risk.
Andrew.