Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:38:27 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] arm: asm/cmpxchg.h: Add support half-word xchg() |
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:34:35PM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > Actually, I think we ought to get rid of __bad_xchg() so that cases > > like this cause a link error instead of a runtime error, just like we > > do in other cases as well. > > > > That's something that goes back ages (it used to be called something > > like invalidptr in 2.0 kernels...) > > That sounds like a good idea. I will cook up a patch doing this.
I've just removed it on my build system's tree, and we'll see tomorrow morning how it fairs. If it spits out a lot of errors, we won't be able to remove it.
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