On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 04:55:49PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> local_t isn't much use until we get rid of asm-generic/local.h. Bloaty,
> racy with nested interrupts.
The overuse of atomics is horrific in what is being proposed. All the
major architectures except powerpc (i386, x86-64, ia64, and sparc64)
implement local_t. It would make far more sense to push the last few
stragglers (which mostly seem to be uniprocessor) into writing the
appropriate implementations. Perhaps it's time to add a #error in
asm-generic/local.h?
-ben
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