post again, dangit)
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Evan Clinton
> wrote:
>>> The Fedora guys are having trouble building the armv5tel variant (well,
>>> they did before this patch too, but... :)
>>> htt
> The Fedora guys are having trouble building the armv5tel variant (well, they
> did before this patch too, but... :)
> http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=790343&name=build.log
Ah, I think the problem is that the build system is not playing nicely
with cross-compiles (which it
Thanks again for the comments.
>> Quote the documentation, __kuser_cmpxchg "already includes memory
>> barriers as needed," so the code using it shouldn't need anything
>> extra.
>
> Fair enough - but could you put a comment to this effect into the patch?
Comment added.
> But I'm still not too ha
Hi Leif, thanks for the comments.
> - The v5 code doesn't actually make use of the kuser helper barriers
> in its versions of opal_atomic_cmpset_acq/rel.
Quote the documentation, __kuser_cmpxchg "already includes memory
barriers as needed," so the code using it shouldn't need anything
extra.
> -
ably v4, but I don't have either to test on.
Documentation for the Linux kernel helper functions:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt
I've sent in a contributor agreement so there should be no IP problems.
Hop
