On 14.09.2023 16:56, Oleksii Kurochko wrote:
> Based on two patch series [1] and [2], the idea of which is to provide minimal
> amount of things for a complete Xen build, a large amount of headers are the 
> same
> or almost the same, so it makes sense to move them to asm-generic.
> 
> Also, providing such stub headers should help future architectures to add
> a full Xen build.
> 
> [1] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/[email protected]/
> [2] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/[email protected]/
> 
> Oleksii Kurochko (29):
>   xen/asm-generic: introduce stub header spinlock.h

At the example of this, personally I think this goes too far. Headers in
asm-generic should be for the case where an arch elects to not implement
certain functionality. Clearly spinlocks are required uniformly.

Jan

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