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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	  Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	  Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	ltt-dev@shafik.org,   systemtap@sources.redhat.com,
	Douglas Niehaus <niehaus@eecs.ku.edu>,
	  "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	  Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070127173124.GA25282@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070127021834.e26e955d.akpm@osdl.org>

* Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:15:45 -0500
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> 
> > It mainly adds support for missing 64 bits cmpxchg and 64 bits atomic add
> > unless. Therefore, principally 64 bits architectures are targeted by these
> > patches. It also adds the complete list of atomic operations on the atomic_long
> > type.
> 
> OK, I fixed eight separate compile errors in this patch series and
> now powerpc is being very ugly with a twisty maze of include dependencies.
> 
> I'm giving up.  Someone should publish a suite of cross-compilers for us
> so stuff like this doesn't need to happen.

Hi Andrew,

This seems to be caused by the fact that I use inline functions for
atomic_long_cmpxchg and atomic_long_xchg. I could simply use macros and
this problem would fade away.

I agree about the cross-compiler suite, it would be very useful here.

Mathieu

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-27 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-25 16:16 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-25 16:21 ` [PATCH 02/09] atomic.h : Complete atomic_long operations in asm-generic Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-26  2:54   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-25 16:26 ` [PATCH 01/09] atomic.h : Add atomic64 cmpxchg, xchg and add_unless to alpha Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-25 16:26 ` [PATCH 06/09] atomic.h : Add atomic64 cmpxchg, xchg and add_unless to parisc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-25 17:06 ` [PATCH 04/09] atomic.h : Add atomic64 cmpxchg, xchg and add_unless to ia64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-25 18:06 ` [PATCH 03/09] atomic.h : i386 type safety fix Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-25 18:11 ` [PATCH 07/09] atomic.h : Add atomic64 cmpxchg, xchg and add_unless to powerpc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-25 18:12 ` [PATCH 09/09] atomic.h : Add atomic64 cmpxchg, xchg and add_unless to x86_64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-25 18:16 ` [PATCH 05/09] atomic.h : Add atomic64 cmpxchg, xchg and add_unless to mips Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-25 20:22 ` [PATCH 08/09] atomic.h : Add atomic64 cmpxchg, xchg and add_unless to sparc64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-26 11:32 ` [PATCH 00/09] atomic.h : standardizing atomic primitives Peter Zijlstra
2007-01-27  9:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-27 10:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-27 17:36   ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2007-01-27 18:11   ` [Ltt-dev] " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-01-27 20:06     ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-27 20:10       ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-27 20:31         ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-27 20:34           ` Martin Bligh
2007-01-27 22:51           ` Jan Dittmer
2007-01-29 18:39       ` Richard Purdie
2007-01-29 18:56         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-01-29 19:17           ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-12  1:35 Mathieu Desnoyers

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