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> - i introduced a 'type-sensitive' macro wrapper that switches down() > (and the other APIs) to either to the assembly variant (if the > variable's type is struct compat_semaphore), or switches it to the new > generic mutex (if the type is struct semaphore), at build-time. There > is no runtime overhead due to this build-time-switching. Didn't that drop compatibility with 2.95? The necessary builtins are only in 3.x. Not that I'm not in favour - I would like to use C99 everywhere and it would get of the ugly spinlock workaround for i386 and x86-64 doesn't support earlier compilers anyways - but others might not agree. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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