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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v4 5/9] configure: Enable/disable new
 qemu_{ld, st} excl insns
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To: Alvise Rigo <a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com>
Cc: mttcg@listserver.greensocs.com, claudio.fontana@huawei.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, jani.kokkonen@huawei.com, tech@virtualopensystems.com, alex.bennee@linaro.org

On 2015-08-07 19:03, Alvise Rigo wrote:
> Introduce the new --enable-tcg-ldst-excl configure option to enable the
> LL/SC operations only for those backends that support them.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jani Kokkonen <jani.kokkonen@huawei.com>
> Suggested-by: Claudio Fontana <claudio.fontana@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alvise Rigo <a.rigo@virtualopensystems.com>
> ---
>  configure | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

We have seen that for this kind of patch, it's better to add support in
all backends, otherwise it takes ages to get all the backends converted.
I think you should involve the backend maintainers. I can try to provide
the corresponding patches for mips and ia64.

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