linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/11] kernel/locks: consolidate RWSEM_GENERIC

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdW4C1McxL-e7ZSiSOiiE5D=xbBK8FZOwuJ1w0kK3CR1Hg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:52:38 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] kernel/locks: consolidate RWSEM_GENERIC_* options

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:08 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> Introduce one central definition of RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM and
> RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK in kernel/Kconfig.locks and let architectures
> select RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM if they want it, otherwise default to
> the spinlock version.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Note that this conflicts with "[PATCH v4 2/3] locking/rwsem: Remove
rwsem-spinlock.c & use rwsem-xadd.c for all archs"
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1550095217-12047-3-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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