linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/8] Implement always-locked bit ops, for memory shared with an SMP hypervisor.

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608022213530.26980@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:19:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, akpm@...l.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@...source.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/8] Implement always-locked bit ops, for memory shared
 with an SMP hypervisor.

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > Those operations are only needed for special xen driver and not for 
> > regular kernel code!
> 
> The Xen driver will be "regular" kernel code.

As far as I can tell from this conversation there are special "Xen" 
drivers that need this not the rest of the system.

> > for those special xen drivers.
> 
> Well there might be reasons someone else uses this in the future too.
> It's also not exactly Linux style - normally we try to add generic
> facilities.

What possible use could there be to someone else?

The "atomic" ops lock/unlock crap exists only for i386 as far as I can 
tell. As you said most architectures either always use atomic ops or 
never. The lock/unlock atomic ops are i386 specific material that 
better stay contained. Its arch specific and not generic.

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