Re: [Patch][aarch64] Use IFUNCs to enable LSE instructions in libatomic on aarch64

[Steve Ellcey <sellcey@cavium.com>]

FYI: Since James approved the Aarch64 part and since I think the
generic part can be considered trivial, I have gone ahead and checked
this patch in.

Steve Ellcey
sellcey@cavium.com

On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 16:12 -0800, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 17:35 +0000, James Greenhalgh wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for the detailed explanation. I understood this, and my
> > opinion is
> > that the AArch64 parts of this patch are OK (and I don't know who
> > needs to
> > Ack the small generic changes you require).
> > 
> > Let's give Richard/Marcus 48 hours to object while we wait for an
> > OK on the
> > generic bits, and then OK for AArch64.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > James
> > 
> > Reviewed-By: James Greenhalgh <james.greenhalgh@arm.com>
> James, I haven't seen anything from Richard or Marcus.  Do you think
> a
> review from a global maintainer is really needed?  There is no
> libatomic specific maintainer.  The only non-aarch64 specific change
> is using the macro IFUNC_RESOLVER_ARGS in place of the hardcoded
> 'void'
> argument for ifunc selector functions and for all non-aarch64
> platforms
> the macro will be defined as 'void' so there is no real change for
> any
> other platform.
> 
> Steve Ellcey
> sellcey@cavium.com