linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ia64: populate the cmpxchg header with appropriate code

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Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:13:10 -0700
From:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ia64: populate the cmpxchg header with appropriate code

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<paul.gortmaker@...driver.com> wrote:
> Just wondering if you had a chance to look at this, and
> whether it was OK and in your queue.

My only concern is whether there are users who just include <asm/intrinsics.h>
to get xchg/cmpxchg ... but I guess it should be easy enough for anyone who
has breakage in this area to add <asm/cmpxchg.h>

> It has been in linux-next for > 1wk.

Sadly there are few testers for ia64 building linux-next ... so this doesn't
mean as much as it does for an x86 patch :-(

> I've got a fix for
> arch/alpha and I can bundle this along with it in a pull
> request if you don't have it in your queue already.

I don't have it queued. If you want to handle it, that is fine. Add an

Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

-Tony
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