Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:01:52 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc regression: m68k CONFIG_RMW_INSNS=n compile broken |
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Hi,
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yes, we now require cmpxchg of all architectures.
Actually I'd prefer if we used atomic_cmpxchg() instead. The cmpxchg() emulation was never added for a good reason - to keep code from assuming it can be used it for userspace synchronisation. Using an atomic_t here would probably get at least some attention.
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