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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	xen-ppc-devel <xen-ppc-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] xen: Split domain_flags into discrete first-class fields in the
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:08:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175792898.20895.26.camel@basalt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C23ADAC6.CDFE%keir@xensource.com>

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:56 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 5/4/07 16:44, "Hollis Blanchard" <hollisb@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is an interface problem: using the interface in a way that works on
> > x86 fails on other architectures. PLEASE let's redefine the interface to
> > prevent this from happening. In this case, that means replacing the
> > xchg() macro with
> >         static inline xchg(atomic_t *ptr, atomic_t val)
> > and changing the type of 'is_dying'.
> 
> Just need to define bool_t appropriately. What do you need: a long?

An int would be fine, and that would solve today's problem.

How will that prevent the same problem from recurring in the future?

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200703302310.l2UNAF7O021926@xenbits2.xensource.com>
2007-04-05 15:44 ` [Xen-changelog] [xen-unstable] xen: Split domain_flags into discrete first-class fields in the Hollis Blanchard
2007-04-05 15:56   ` Keir Fraser
2007-04-05 16:59     ` Keir Fraser
2007-04-05 17:21       ` Hollis Blanchard
2007-04-05 17:08     ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]

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