From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: bitops.h ifdef __KERNEL__ cleanup.
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:54:43 MET-1 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <911753F4952@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
On 18 Jul 01 at 23:54, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Not all architectures put clear_bit et al in asm/bitops.h in a form which
> is usable from userspace. Yet because it happens to work on a PeeCee,
> people do it anyway.
Please do not do this. At least ncpfs checks for usability of these
ops from its configure script, and if they are not available/usable,
it reverts to pthread mutex based implementation, which is slower
dozen of times. Same applies for atomic_* functions.
I think that you should complain to userspace authors who do not
check for bitops existence and not force other to distrbute 8+ versions
of bitops.h with their application, together with infrastructure for
selecting correct version...
Just my 0.02c.
Petr Vandrovec
vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
next reply other threads:[~2001-07-19 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-19 12:54 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2001-07-19 11:48 ` bitops.h ifdef __KERNEL__ cleanup Russell King
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-19 19:21 Petr Vandrovec
2001-07-19 18:37 ` Russell King
2001-07-19 21:53 ` David Woodhouse
2001-07-20 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-07-21 6:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-27 5:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-18 22:54 David Woodhouse
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