linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -v2 00/33] implement atomic_fetch

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:32:42 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 00/33] implement atomic_fetch_$op

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 02:55:30PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> I'd much prefer to have all of these in the locking tree (i.e. tip:locking/core), 
> to make it less painful all around.

All the fetch_op stuff, yes certainly. But Vineet wanted to munge
arch/arc/include/asm/atomic.h a bit in 4.7, which would make applying
the arc fetch_op patch tricky.