linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 00/18] atomics: API cleanups

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jun 2018 17:38:06 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 00/18] atomics: API cleanups

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:19:01AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> This series contains a few cleanups of the atomic API, fixing
> inconsistencies between atomic_* and atomic64_*, and minimizing
> repetition in arch code. This is nicer for arch code, and the improved
> regularity will help when generating the atomic headers in future.

Apart from the Alpha patch:

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

I also tried to compare disassembly before/after, but the changes to
add_unless made that quite fiddly for anything using it as a backend.

Do you plan to move arm64 over to atomic-instrumented.h at some point?

Will