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Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 22:26:48 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex: Set USER_DS for the futex_detect_cmpxchg() test
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Max Filippov wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> > There may be a much nicer solution.  Unless I missed something, only
> > mips and xtensa even have the possibility of cmpxchg being missing.
> > We could just make those arches supply a futex-detecting helper.
> 
> In case of xtensa availability of cmpxchg is known at build time.

That makes it even simpler. Could you provide a patch which selects
CONFIG_HAVE_FUTEX_CMPXCHG for the right set of CPUs please?

Thanks,

	tglx