Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758034AbXHKAgl (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:36:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757627AbXHKAgM (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:36:12 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:37305 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757452AbXHKAgJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:36:09 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18109.1084.917429.585224@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:35:08 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Chris Snook Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Luck, Tony" , Andreas Schwab , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, ak@suse.de, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, davem@davemloft.net, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, wensong@linux-vs.org, horms@verge.net.au, wjiang@resilience.com, cfriesen@nortel.com, zlynx@acm.org, rpjday@mindspring.com, jesper.juhl@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently on ia64 In-Reply-To: <46BCF19E.5000702@redhat.com> References: <20070809135107.GA15985@shell.boston.redhat.com> <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A02213B3C@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> <46BCC1AF.5050204@redhat.com> <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A0224C777@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A0224C88B@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> <46BCE9F8.4060009@redhat.com> <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A0224C8D7@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> <46BCF19E.5000702@redhat.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 556 Lines: 15 Chris Snook writes: > I'll do this for the whole patchset. Stay tuned for the resubmit. Could you incorporate Segher's patch to turn atomic_{read,set} into asm on powerpc? Segher claims that using asm is really the only reliable way to ensure that gcc does what we want, and he seems to have a point. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/