linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 07/12] parisc/percpu: Work around the lack of __SIZEOF_INT128_

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Date:   Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:08:44 +0100
From:   Sam James <sam@...too.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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        John David Anglin <dave.anglin@...l.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/12] parisc/percpu: Work around the lack of
 __SIZEOF_INT128__


Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:32:38PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
>> On 6/1/23 12:14, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 04:21:22PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> > 
>> > > It would be nice to have the hack more localized to parisc
>> > > and guarded with a CONFIG_GCC_VERSION check so we can kill
>> > > it off in the future, once we drop either gcc-10 or parisc
>> > > support.
>> > 
>> > I vote for dropping parisc -- it's the only 64bit arch that doesn't have
>> > sane atomics.
>> 
>> Of course I'm against dropping parisc.
>
> :-)
>
>> > Anyway, the below seems to work -- build tested with GCC-10.1
>> 
>> I don't think we need to care about gcc-10 on parisc.
>> Debian and Gentoo are the only supported distributions, while Debian
>> requires gcc-12 to build > 6.x kernels, and I assume Gentoo uses at least
>> gcc-12 as well.
>> 
>> So raising the gcc limit for parisc only (at least temporarily for now)
>> should be fine and your workaround below wouldn't be necessary, right?
>
> Correct, if you're willing to set minimum GCC version to 11 for parisc
> all is well and this patch can go play in the bit bucket.

It's fine for us in Gentoo, thanks!

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