Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:59:10 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bitops: Use volatile in generic atomic bitops. | From | Will Newton <> |
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On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 July 2011, Will Newton wrote: >> Imagination Technologies META, which is a custom in-house >> architecture. No immediate plans to upstream unfortunately. :-/ > > Ah, interesting. We have a few other DSP architectures lined up > for upstream integration. Let me know when you get there as well. > Is there a git tree available somewhere?
Not at the moment. It's something I would like to have though.
>> FWIW I checked all the in-tree architectures and it seems everyone >> else gets this right (although I got a bit lost with tile). > > Yes, I think that you get into a lot of other problems if you > mess up the basic synchronization primitives, so they would have > noticed at some point.
On the contrary, the system was remarkably stable and the issue only showed up in one particular driver under heavy load. ;-)
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