linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv3 08/12] atomics: switch to generated fallbacks

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Date:   Thu, 5 Jul 2018 19:23:06 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 08/12] atomics: switch to generated fallbacks

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 05:40:49PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:

> * The fallbacks are not expected to change very often, and are not
>   affected by machine details or configuration options, so regenerating
>   them for *every* build is somewhat wasteful.

Except of course, your last patch in this series now does exactly that
:-)