linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to atomic_long

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Message-ID: <20160603120042.GL3190@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2016 14:00:42 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Terry Rudd <terry.rudd@....com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>,
	Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
	Jason Low <jason.low2@...com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] locking/rwsem: Convert rwsem count to
 atomic_long_t

On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 10:04:07AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So I tried to pick up this series, and it broke the Alpha and IA64 builds:
> 
> /home/mingo/tip/arch/ia64/include/asm/rwsem.h: In function '___down_write':
> /home/mingo/tip/arch/ia64/include/asm/rwsem.h:58:7: error: incompatible types when 
> assigning to type 'long int' from type 'atomic_long_t'
>    old = sem->count;
>        ^
> 
> home/mingo/tip/arch/alpha/include/asm/rwsem.h: In function '__down_read':
> /home/mingo/tip/arch/alpha/include/asm/rwsem.h:28:11: error: incompatible types 
> when assigning to type 'long int' from type 'atomic_long_t'
>   oldcount = sem->count;
>            ^

Yeah, that's intermediate borkage, the easiest fix would be to just fold
the two patches. Let me do that and verify it builds properly.

> 
> btw., for some reason I don't have the mails from Jason in my mbox, perhaps GMail 
> spam filtering ate it?

Linus has been complaining about a lot of lost email due to gmail's idea
of what constitutes spam, so that's entirely possible.