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Re: [PATCH, ARM] Atomic builtins using kernel helpers for Linux/EABI
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Julian Brown <julian at codesourcery dot com>, 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 15:34:04 +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> <49788A3C.8070405@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:01 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.
On that basis: OK.
R.