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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitops: Use volatile in generic atomic bitops.
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:22:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107271722.51179.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFbHwiRUKEuK_88+yfUpiWnRBgGKBTpH2Fm7EpzW-dJSiwhHLA@mail.gmail.com>

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?

> 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.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27 12:21 [PATCH] bitops: Use volatile in generic atomic bitops Will Newton
2011-07-27 12:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-27 13:09   ` Will Newton
2011-07-27 14:28     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-27 14:32       ` Will Newton
2011-07-27 15:22         ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-07-27 15:59           ` Will Newton
2011-07-27 16:15 ` [stable] " Greg KH

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