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

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 19:54:31 +0530
From:	Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 00/33] implement atomic_fetch_$op

On Wednesday 08 June 2016 07:02 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.
> 

My patches are in linux-next already. I was hoping to squeeze in a different fix
before sending the pull request to Linus. But I don't want to stall you, will do
that first thing tomorrow morning. OK ?