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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 08/11] atomics: switch to generated fallbacks
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 16:28:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180704152846.GL4828@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180625105952.3756-9-mark.rutland@arm.com>

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 11:59:49AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> As a step to ensuring the atomic* APIs are consistent, switch to fallbacks
> generated by gen-atomic-fallback.sh.
> 
> These are checked in rather than generated with Kbuild, since:
> 
> * This allows inspection of the atomics with git grep and ctags on a
>   pristine tree, which Linus strongly prefers being able to do.
> 
> * The fallbacks are not expected to change very often, and are not
>   affected by machine details or configuration options, so regenerating
>   them for *every* build is somewhat wasteful.
> 
> * These are included by files required *very* early in the build process
>   (e.g. for generating bounds.h), and we'd rather not complicate the
>   top-level Kbuild file.

Would it be worth checking that the generated output from the script doesn't
differ from the file in tree at some point during the build, and issuing a
warning if they do?

Will

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-04 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-25 10:59 [PATCHv2 00/11] atomics: generate atomic headers / instrument arm64 Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 01/11] atomic/tty: Fix up atomic abuse in ldsem Mark Rutland
2018-06-26 18:53   ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-06-26 19:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-27 17:33       ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 02/11] atomics/x86: reduce arch_cmpxchg64*() instrumentation Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 03/11] atomics: simplify cmpxchg() instrumentation Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 11:38   ` Andrea Parri
2018-06-25 11:47     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2018-06-25 11:48     ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 04/11] atomics/treewide: instrument xchg() Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 05/11] atomics: instrument cmpxchg_double*() Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 06/11] atomics/treewide: rework ordering barriers Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 15:44   ` Mark Rutland
2018-07-04 15:06   ` Will Deacon
2018-07-04 15:56     ` Mark Rutland
2018-07-04 17:50       ` Will Deacon
2018-07-05 10:12         ` Mark Rutland
2018-07-05 16:25           ` Will Deacon
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 07/11] atomics: add common header generation files Mark Rutland
2018-06-28 10:58   ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-28 11:46     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 08/11] atomics: switch to generated fallbacks Mark Rutland
2018-07-04 15:28   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2018-07-04 16:01     ` Mark Rutland
2018-07-04 17:44       ` Will Deacon
2018-07-05 11:52         ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 09/11] atomics: switch to generated atomic-long Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 10/11] atomics: switch to generated instrumentation Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 10:59 ` [PATCHv2 11/11] arm64: use instrumented atomics Mark Rutland
2018-07-04 15:24   ` Will Deacon
2018-07-04 16:37     ` Mark Rutland
2018-07-04 17:41       ` Will Deacon
2018-07-05  9:58         ` Mark Rutland
2018-06-25 15:22 ` [PATCHv2 00/11] atomics: generate atomic headers / instrument arm64 Peter Zijlstra

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