> On Sep 28, 2018, at 1:26 PM, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, Max Filippov wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
>>> 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?
>
>
I think that’s the wrong approach, since it won’t cover mips. How about adding
this to mips and xtensa only:
static inline void arch_have_futex_cmpxchg(void) {...};
#define arch_have_futex_cmpxchg arch_have_futex_cmpxchg
And getting rid of the config option.
