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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] atomics,cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of
 asm/cmpxchg.h
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 15:47:40 -0700
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On Wed, 09 Sep 2015, Boqun Feng wrote:

>After commit:
>
>atomics: add acquire/release/relaxed variants of some atomic operations
>
>Architectures may only provide {cmp,}xchg_relaxed definitions in
>asm/cmpxchg.h. Other variants, such as {cmp,}xchg, may be built in
>linux/atomic.h, which means simply including asm/cmpxchg.h may not get
>the definitions of all the{cmp,}xchg variants. Therefore, we should
>privatize the inclusions of asm/cmpxchg.h to keep it only included in
>arch/* and replace the inclusions outside with linux/atomic.h
>
>Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>

fwiw,

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>