Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:25:09 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/8] Implement always-locked bit ops, for memory shared with an SMP hypervisor. |
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> It needn't be all architectures yet - only architectures that want to compile > Xen drivers are really affected. Perhaps a better place for these locking > primitives is in a Xen-specific driver header which defines appropriate > primitives for the architectures required? Last I remember, there were still > some issues here where atomic partial word operations couldn't be supported on > some architectures.
Good idea. This will also make it easier to support this special functionality. And it will avoid use in contexts where these are not necessary. - 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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