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From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Subject: arch/riscv doesn't support xchg() on bool
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:40:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191021204026.GE122863@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

The kbuild test robot reported a build error on RISC-V in this patch:

	https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11182389/

... because of the line:

	if (!xchg(&mode->logged_impl_name, true)) {

where logged_impl_name is a 'bool'.  The problem is that unlike most (or all?)
other kernel architectures, arch/riscv/ doesn't support xchg() on bytes.
See: arch/riscv/include/asm/cmpxchg.h

Is there any chance this could be implemented, to avoid this
architecture-specific quirk?  Note, there's at least one other
place in the kernel that also uses xchg() on a bool.

- Eric

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             reply	other threads:[~2019-10-21 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-21 20:40 Eric Biggers [this message]
2019-10-22  1:23 ` arch/riscv doesn't support xchg() on bool Paul Walmsley
2019-10-22  1:45   ` Eric Biggers

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